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'''Edward Burnett Tylor'''
{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = Edward Burnett
| birth_date = 1832
| death_date = 1917
| address = 6 Boniface Terrace, Ventnor, Isle of Wight [1863]<br />Linden, Wellington Somerset [1865]<br />The Museum House, Oxford [18991883]<br />Linden, Wellington, Somerset [1911]
| occupation = academic<br />museum work
| elected_ESL = 1867
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ESL, ASL, AI Ordinary Fellow <br />ASL Hon. Foreign Secretary 1863 - resigns from this 7 apr 1863<br />ASL Foundation Fellow
| left = ASL 1868.08.18 resignsresigned ASL1917 deceased
| clubs = Athenaeum Club<br />Ad Eundem
| societies = Royal Society<br />Royal Geographical Society<br />Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society<br />Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom<br />Folklore Society<br />British Association
ESL Council 1868-69 Member<br />ESL Council 1869-70 Vice President<br /><br />ASL Council 1863 Hon. Foreign Secretary<br /><br />AI Council 1873 Member<br />AI Council 1874 Member<br />AI Council 1875 Member<br />AI Council 1876 Vice President<br />AI Council 1877 Vice President<br />AI Council 1878 Member<br />AI Council 1880 President<br />AI Council 1881 Vice President<br />AI Council 1882 Vice President<br />AI Council 1883 Vice President<br />AI Council 1884 Vice President<br />AI Council 1885 Vice President<br />AI Council 1891 President<br />AI Council 1892 President<br />AI Council 1912-13 Vice President (pp)<br />
=== House Notes ===
Professor of Anthropology, Keeper of the University Museum, Oxford<br /><br />1907 HML The Huxley Memorial Medal this year was presented to EBT on the occasion of his 75th birthday in recognition of his life-long services to the science of anthropology Presented 5th Nov. <br />1917.02.13 It was resolved that the late Sir Edward Tylor’s subscription received by Bankers Order on Jan. 1st should be refunded.<br /><br />portrait and obit. in Man 1917 by C.H. Read
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917), was an English anthropologist<br /><br />Tylor was appointed Keeper of the University Museum at Oxford in 1883, and, as well as serving as a lecturer, held the title of the first "Reader in Anthropology" from 1884–1895. In 1896 he was appointed the first Professor of Anthropology at Oxford University. He was involved in the early history of the Pitt Rivers Museum, although to a debatable extent<br /><br />Member of the Athenaeum club from 1872<br />Born Camberwell, Surrey; died Wellington, Somerset. Keeper, Oxford University Museum 1883; Reader in Anthropology 1884; Professor of Anthropology 1896. Knighted 1912. Honorary degrees from Oxford and Cambridge. Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. Wife Anna, née Fox, (qv) also donor to PRM.<br />