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'''Augustus Henry Keane'''
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=== House Notes ===
proposed 1879.01.21<br />recommended by W.L. Distant, F.G. Hilton Price, W.N. Flower, 28 Jan. 1879 [A31]<br />Corresponding member of the Italian Society of Anthropology<br />Professor of Hindustani, University College, London [1885]<br />death noted in the report of the council for 1912: Dr. A. H. Keane died in February at the age of 79: for 33 years he had been a Fellow of the Institute and his eminent services to Anthropology, which he made his lifelong study, are well known to all members of this Society. An obituary notice has appeared in Man,1 912, 28.
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Augustus Henry Keane (1833–1912) was an Irish Roman Catholic journalist and linguist, known for his ethnological writings.<br /><br />Born Cork; died London.<br />Brought up for priesthood but declined to enter it. Professor of Hindustani, University College London. Honorary degree from St Andrews. Numerous anthropological publications, mainly on language and linguistics. In Who was who he describes his career as ‘uneventful’ and his education as having taken place in Jersey, Italy, Dublin and Hanover.<br />