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'''William Halse Rivers Rivers'''
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AI Council 1901 Member<br />AI Council 1902 Member<br />AI Council 1903 Member<br />AI Council 1905 Member<br />AI Council 1906 Member<br />RAI Council 1907 Member<br />RAI Council 1909 Member<br />RAI Council 1910 Member<br />RAI Council 1911 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1912-13 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1913 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1914 Member<br />RAI Council 1915 Member<br />RAI Council 1916 Member<br />RAI Council 1917 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1918 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1919 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1920 Member<br />RAI Council 1921 President<br />RAI Council 1922 President
=== House Notes ===
1900.03.13 proposed<br />report of the council for 1915: the Council desires to offer its congratulations to Dr. W. H. R. Rivers on being the recipient of one of the Government Gold Medals from the Royal Society for his research work in Anthropology <br />death reported in Report of the Council for 1922, obituary in Man
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
William Halse Rivers Rivers, FRCP, FRS, (12 March 1864 – 4 June 1922) was an English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist, best known for his work treating World War I officers who were suffering from shell shock. Rivers's most famous patient was the poet Siegfried Sassoon, with whom he remained close friends until his own sudden death. Rivers was a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and is also notable for his participation in the Torres Straits expedition of 1898 and his consequent seminal work on the subject of kinship.<br /><br />Born Chatham, Kent; died Cambridge. His maternal uncle was James Hunt, the racist anthropologist, whose library Rivers inherited. Lectureship in Psychology at Cambridge, 1897; Fellow St John’s, 1902. Torres Straits Expedition, 1898; Toda, 1901-2; Pacific, 1907-8, 1914-15. Work on shell shock during World War I. Honorary degrees from Manchester, St Andrews and Cambridge.<br /><br /><br /><br />