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'''Henry Balfour'''
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=== House Notes ===
1888.11.13 proposed for election at next meeting<br />1900.11.27 A70/7/67 ‘Mr Balfour presented to this Institute a portrait of the late Lieut. Gen. Pitt-Rivers…’; AI Council minutes, f. 22 <br />1921 HML The archer’s bow in the Homeric poems: an attempted diagnosis<br />1937.06.08 it was resolved to send a telegram of congratulation on the celebration of his Golden Wedding to Prof. Henry Balfour on Saturday June 11th<br />1939.02.21 death announced<br />death noted in Report of the Council 1938-1939<br />obituary in Man 39, 69<br />Corresp. member Anthrop. Socs Paris, Florence and Rome<br /><br /><br /><br />
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Henry Balfour FRS[1] (11 April 1863 Croydon – 9 February 1939) was a British archaeologist, and the first curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum.<br />He was President of the Royal Anthropological Institute, the Museums Association, the Folklore Society, the Royal Geographical Society, and a Fellow of the Royal Society.[2]<br />Born in Croydon; died Oxford.<br />Curator, Pitt Rivers Museum.<br />Research Fellow, Exeter College. Titular Professor.<br /><br />In 1887 he married Edith, daughter of R. F. Wilkins of Brookhill, Devon, who shared his travels, his work, and his many interests, and survived their golden wedding by a few months. They had one son, Lewis.<br /><br /><br />
