Name

College

Date of Admission

Qualifications

Biographical Notes & Subsequent career

Award

Donor to Pitt Rivers Museum?

Barbara Whitchurch Freire-Marreco

Lady Margaret Hall (afterwards Somerville College)

MT 1907

Hons. Mods (1st Class) H.T.

See here

Diploma with distinction TT 1908 (Gazette, 1908, p. 838)

Yes

Francis Howe Seymour Knowles (Sir)

Oriel (Commoner)

MT 1907

Had completed B.A. Course 1904-1907 (3rd Class Hons.)

See here

Not known

Yes

James Arthur Harley

Jesus

MT 1907

LL.B. 1902, B.A. 1906, Harvard University Admitted B. Litt. Student in Theology, Oxford, October 1907

See here

Diploma TT 1909

Yes

Frédéric Charles Joseph Marius Barbeau

Oriel

MT 1907

Degrees in Lit. Hum., Science and Law, Laval University Quebec, Canada.

See here. Rhodes Scholar

Diploma TT 1910

No

Wilson Dallam Wallis

Wadham

1908

B.A. With distinction in Phil. Psychol., Law, Dickinson College Maryland, U.S.A.

1886-1970. Rhodes Scholar. The title of his B.Sc. thesis was: ‘The conditions psychological and sociological of the development of the individual amongst peoples of rudimentary culture’ (Gazette 1908–9: 687–8). [PR] Geological Survey of Canada, Anthropological Dept. Professor of Anthropology, University of Minnesota. Author of numerous books about North American peoples.

Diploma TT 1910

No

Diamond Jenness

Balliol

MT 1908

M.A. 1st Class. Hon. University of New Zealand

1886-1969. Chief Anthropological Division, Canadian National Museum, Ottawa. Numerous works on Inuit. Fieldwork in New Guinea, & among Inuit. Consulting Anthropologist to Bureau of Indian Affairs in Canada. Delegate of Canadian Government to 4th Pacific Scientific Congress in Java, Chairman at 5th Congress President Archaeological Society of America. Jenness material in the University of Oxford archives (DC 1/3/1-2).

Diploma TT 1910

Yes

Solomon Lee Van Meter

Exeter

HT 1909

Not known

1888-1937. See here. Transylvania and Iowa University Inventor of the pack parachute and ejector seat

Not known

No

Robert Sutherland Rattray

Exeter

1909

1. Cert. Scottish Education Dept. Engineering 9 higher grade), Latin Maths (Lower Grade). 2. Government certificates for high proficiency in Nyanja + Hausa langs. 3. His book Chi-Nyanja Tales.

1881-1938. Assistant Commissioner and District Commissioner, Gold Coast. B.Sc. D.Sc. Government Anthropologist in Ashanti. Publications: Ashanti Proverbs; Ashanti; Ashanti Art & Religion; Ashanti Laws and Constitution. Killed in gliding accident

Diploma June 1914

Yes

Edward Gabriel Piotrowski

Non. Collection.

MT 1909

Resp.

Dates and biography unknown

Not known

No

Henry Percival James

St Johns

1910

Not known

?-1912. Assistant Commissioner, Southern Nigeria. Killed by locals in the execution of his duty in Nigeria on 12 August 1912, see "The Murders in Southern Nigeria", Glasgow Herald, August 14, 1911, p9

Not known

No

Oscar Ferris Watkins

All Souls

1910

M.A. Assistant District Commissioner, Brit. East Africa.

1877-1943. Research work submitted at time of examination – ‘Report on Land Tenure in British East Africa’. Worked in Transvaal Civil Service and British East Africa Protectorate Service. Deputy Chief Native Commissioner

Diploma with distinction 1913

Yes

Paul Dominic Wilmot

Lincoln

MT 1910

Oxford Sen. Latin + Greek (in March) = Resp.

Rhodes Scholar. Killed in action 25 April 1918

Certificate Physical Anthropology TT 1911, Diploma TT 1912

No

Grover Cleveland Huckaby

Wadham

MT 1910

Status of Junior Student

Dates unknown. 1908 Rhodes Scholar. Director Welfare Dept., Magistrates' Court, New York

Not known

No

Earnest Albert Hooton

University

MT 1910

Status of Junior Student

1887-1954. 1910 Rhodes Scholar. Professor of Physical Anthropology, University of Harvard. Up from the Ape. Hooton gave instruction in physical anthropology in the year he was working for his Diploma and B.Litt.

Diploma with Distinction TT 1912

No

Phillip Higham

Queen's (Commoner)

MT 1910

B.A. (2nd Class. Hons. History)

Dates and biography unknown

Diploma TT 1911

No

Dorothea Pughe-Jones née Dorothea Adelaide Lawry Pugh Jones

Somerville

MT 1910

2nd Class. Hons. History, 1900 (equiv. To B.A. status; hence residence not required)

1875-1955. Worked in South Africa as teacher, may also have written handbook on history of Wales. Awarded a prize at the Royal National Eisteddfod in Merthyr Tydfil in 1901. [Thanks to John Jenkins for this information]

Not known

No

Paul Hunter Doré Dodge

Not a member of University

HT 1911

LL.D., B.Phil. University of Chicago, U.S.A.

Dates and biography unknown

Certificate Cultural Anthropology (Social). TT 1911

No

Martha Fleming

Not known

HT 1911

Assistant Professor of Education, University of Chicago, USA.

Dates and biography unknown

Not known

No

Edward Kirkby

Not a member of University (at Ruskin College)

HT 1911

Specially recommended as of industry and ability

[Failed in Certification. Examination Cultural Anthropology (Social) TT 1911]

Not known

No

Albert Guy Pawson

Christ Church

HT 1911

B.A. (2nd Class. Hons. History) Was taking the special course in Anthropology arranged for Sudan Probationers.

1888-1986. Sudan Probationer. Administrator, Sudan Political Service see here Cricketer, see here

Certificate I Cultural Anthropology (Social.) HT 1911

No

George Lewis Monk

Corpus Christi

HT 1911

M.A. (3rd Class Lit. Hum.)

Assistant Commissioner, Northern Nigeria. [Took Course by permission of Colonial Office in lieu of Course at Imperial Institute]

Certificate in Cultural Anthropology (Social), HT 1911

Yes

Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton

Exeter (Open Class Scholar)

HT 1911

Hon. Class. Mods. (3rd class)

See here

Certificate Cultural Anthropology. (Social) TT 1911. Diploma with Distinction

Yes

Melville William Hilton-Simpson

Exeter (Commoner)

MT 1911

Resp. etc. Also Exploration in Africa

See here

Not known

Yes

Mary Czaplicka a.k.a. Marie Antoinette Czaplicka

Somerville

MT 1911

Teacher's Certificate for geography, Librarian; Secretary of Geographical Section Warsaw

See here

Diploma TT 1912

Yes

Anna Fischer

Not known

MT 1911

Ph.D. University of Prague

Dates and biography unknown

Certificate in Cultural Anthropology. June 1914.

Katherine Scoresby-Routledge

Somerville

MT 1911

2nd class Hons. History (1895)

1866-1935. The Mystery of Easter Island, With a Prehistoric People, The Akikuyu (with husband) Died 18 December 1936 [Entered for, but did not take, examination TT 1912]

Not known

Yes

Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford

Keble

MT 1911

B.A.

1886-1957. Ordinance Survey, Southampton, Archaeology Officer. Wellcome Expedition to Sudan. The Andover District, Essex from the Air

Diploma TT 1912

Yes

Charles William Berry Littlejohn

New

MT 1911

B.A. (1st Class, Physiology 1911)

1889-1960. Rhodes Scholar. Born in New Zealand. Rower who competed for Great Britain in the 1912 Olympics. See here Served in the first world war. Eventually ranked temporary Brigadier in the Australian forces [Theodore Williams Scholar in Human Anatomy, 1912]

Diploma with Distinction TT 1912

No

Henry Kenneth Fry

Balliol

MT 1911

B.Sc. Melbourne [B.Sc. Oxford 1912]

?1886-1959. Rhodes Scholar. Fry worked with the Northern Territory Health Service and was Medical Officer for the City of Adelaide. President of the Anthropological Society of South Australia 1933, 1951 and made a special study of Aboriginal culture in central Australia. Rhodes Scholarship Oxford Balliol College from 1909-1912, studying medicine and anthropology. Diploma in Public Health and a Diploma in Anthropology. 1913, the Australian Commonwealth appointed him medical officer for the Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [Information courtesy of Eric Venbrux]

Diploma with Distinction TT 1912

Yes

Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe

Jesus

HT 1912

Hon. M.A., University

Archaeologist. Lecturer in Tamil & Telgu, Ceylon. See here

Not known

No

Vasile George Ispir

[Unknown]

HT 1912

Licentiate in Theology, University of Bucharest.

1886-1947. Professor of Theology. Educated at Bucharest, Berlin and Oxford. Research work submitted at time of examination Notes & Essays relating to comparative religion. Varatec, Neamtu, Roumania. Professor of Theology

Diploma, 1913

No

Margaret Brackenbury Crook

Oxford Home Students

HT 1912

London Intermediate with Latin Prize

1886-1972. University of London B.A. Later Minister of the Unitarian and Liberal Christian Churches Associate professor, Smith College, USA. See http://uudb.org/articles/margaretbrackenburycrook.html

Certificate in Social Anthropology, 1913. Diploma with distinction June 1914

No

Mary Poyntz

Oxford Home Students

HT 1912

Research Scholar, Columbia University. N.Y., U.S.A.

[Entered for, but did not take, examination TT 1912] Dates and biography unknown

Not known

No

Leonard Fielding Nalder

Corpus Christi

HT 1912

B.A. 2nd Class Hon. Hist. 1910

1888-1958. Sudan Probationer. Colonial Governor, Sudan

Certificate with Distinction in Cultural Anthropology. (Social) TT 1912

No

Llewellyn Arthur Hugh-Jones

St. John's

HT 1912

B.A. 2nd Class Lit. Hum. 1911

?-1970. Egyptian Probationer. Worked in the British administration of Egypt, Ministry of Finance, Cairo, Egypt, Governor of Faiyum

Certificate in Cultural Anthropology (Social), TT 1912

No

Donald Victor Newhall

Lincoln

HT 1912

Resp. L Pass Mods.

1890- ?. Research work submitted at time of examination 'Maps, notes, essays.' Portrait Painter based in USA

Diploma 1913

No

Hubert Frank Mathews

Jesus

HT 1912

B.A. (2nd Math. Mods, 1907, 3rd Physics 1909)

1885-1964. Assistant Commissioner, Northern Nigeria. [Took course by permission of Colonial Office in lieu of Government Course] See here

Certificate in Cultural Anthropology (Social) TT 1912. Diploma with Distinction June 18, 1925

Yes

Cyril Henry Fiennes Clinton Davenport

Not known

1912

P. Mods

c. 1888-1912 died during the Long Vacation.

Not known

Yes

Hannah Byrne

Somerville

MT 1912

1st Class. Geology. 1909

Gazetteer of Native Tribes of Australia (not published)

Diploma with Distinction 1913

No

Winifred Susan Blackman

[unknown]

MT 1912

Recommended as industrious and intelligent student by Dr Seligman

See here

Diploma. June 1915.

Yes

Hugh Kingsley Ward

New

MT 1912

Unknown

1887-1972. Rhodes Scholar Bacteriologist. Educated University of Sydney [MB] taught at Oxford, Harvard and Sydney

Diploma 1913.

No

Wilfred Dyson Hambly

Jesus

MT 1912

1st class. Hon.

1886-1962. Research work submitted at time of examination 'Various notebooks in physical, technological, and social anthropology' Special Essay on tattooing. Curator of African Ethnology and Archaeology, Field Museum of Natural history, Chicago. The History of Tattooing & its Significance. African Anthropology, Ethnology of Africa, Ovimbundu (Angola).

Diploma 1913

No

Alan Herbert Coltart

Exeter

MT 1912

M.A.

1885-? by 1937. Biography unknown. There is the Coltart Scholarship in Anthropology at Exeter College in his memory that is dated to 1937. He matriculated in 1903.

Diploma June 1914

Yes

George Reginald Carline

Exeter

MT 1912

Strongly recommended as promising student by Dr. Bradley, etc.

See here

Diploma June 1914

Yes

Alexander Traies Schofield

Exeter

MT 1912

P. Mods

?1892-1918. Served in Kent Cyclist Battalion Died 10 November 1918, of wounds from France

Not known

No

Donald Hugh Wippell

Exeter

HT 1913

B.A. 1909

1887-1969. After graduating he served in the fist world war for a time and then he helped to run the family firm, J. Wippell & Co Ltd of Exeter and London, Manufacturers of Church Furniture and Clerical outfitters.

Not known

No

Joseph Henry Powell

Hertford

HT 1913

P. Mods

Dates unknown. Research work submitted at time of examination 'Paper om Hookswinging in India.' Clergyman, Vicar of Christ Church, Nailsea, Bristol

Certificate in Social Anthropology, 1913.

No

Bernard Tomkin Holden

Not known

HT 1913

B.A.

Dates and biography unknown

Not known

No

Horace Bidwell English

Pembroke (Rhodes Scholar)

HT 1913

Status of Junior Student

1892-1961. Psychologist and author

Certificate in Social Anthropology, 1913

No

Llewellyn or Llewelyn Slingsby Bethell

University

HT 1913

B.A. (3rd Class. Lit. Hum)

Dates unknown. Possibly Lt. in Nigeria Regiment and served in first world war. Author of a book about living and working in Tasmania. Published a book of poems in 1920 and lived in Hove, Sussex at some point

Not known

No

Percy Ball

Magdalen

HT 1913

B.A.

Dates and biography unknown

Certificate in Social Anthropology, 1913

No

Robert Vickers Bardsley

Merton

HT 1913

B.A.

?Sudan Probationer. Entered but did not take examination, 1913. 1890-1952. Served in the Sudan Political Service from 1913 to 1932 latterly as Governor Blue Nile Province 1928-1932. English cricketer who played a total of 31 first-class matches for Oxford University Lancashire County Cricket Club and Free Foresters between 1910 and 1922. See here. See Images of Empire, Photographic Sources for the British in Sudan Daly and Hogan 2005

Not known

No

Alexander Evelyn Cardew

Balliol

HT 1913

B.A.

1889-1972. Biography unknown. Educated at Repton School, he was a cricketer at school and has a Wisden obituary

Not known

No

William Inkersale Cheesman

Wadham

HT 1913

B.A.

1889-1969. Educated at Merchant Taylor's school. Played rugby in Varsity matches in 1910-1911. Played rugby for England in four matches in 1913. A schoolmaster, served in the Sudan Civil Service. Linked to Seligman, ?archaeologist. Taught at Marlborough College and Pembroke House School in Kenya. [Thanks to John Jenkins for this information]

Not known

Yes

Henry David Crook Craig

Lincoln

HT 1913

Not known

?-1924? Biography unknown. Reported to have died 1924

Certificate in Social Anthropology, 1913.

No

James Elmslie Henderson

Magdalen

HT 1913

Not known

Dates and biography unknown. Possibly served in the Royal Artillery during the first world war

Not known

No

George Colby Hawkins Borley

Balliol

HT 1913

Not known

1891-?after 1939 Educated University College, Reading. Awarded Stanhope History Essay 1912.

Not known

No

Samuel George Haus Bürger

New

HT 1913

Not known

Dates and biography unknown

Not known

No

Angus Graham

New

HT 1913

Not known

1892-1979. Royal Commission Ancient Historic Monuments (Scotland). Forester

Not known

Yes

Percy Robert Diggle

University

1913

B.A.

1887-1977. Eduated at Marlborough College and University College. Played rugby in Varsity matches against Cambridge in 1908-1909. Entered but did not take examination, 1913. In Nigerian Civil Service from 1911-1928 and during First World War served with Nigerian Land Contingent. Assistant District Commissioner, West Africa. He was later Managing Dirctor of Stead McAlpin & Co, in Carlisle. JP for Carlisle and Commissioner of Income Tax. [Thanks to John Jenkins for this information]

Not known

No

Edgar Stanley Pembleton

Christ Church

1913

B.A.

1888-? Entered but did not take examination, 1913. Served in Colonial Administrative Service, Nigeria

Not known

Yes

Edward Elvell Potter

Christ Church

1913

B.A.

Assistant District Commissioner, West Africa. Dates unknown

Not known

No

Edwin Cross

Not known

1913

Not known

Treasury Dept., Southern Nigeria. Dates unknown

Not known

No

Mura Frances Bayly

Oxford Home Students

1913

Leaving cert. Scotch Education Dept., recommended by Cornell University as intelligent student who has done field work in the Pacific

?Member of American Geographical Society. Worked in New Zealand. Dates and biography unknown

Diploma 1914

No

Frederick John Richards

Exeter

TT 1913

M.A.

?Educated at Merchant Taylors School worked for Indian Civil Service from 1898 served in Madras as magistrate. Author of various publications on Dravidians. Collected archaeological specimens in India

Not known

Yes

Paul Shuffrey

Lincoln

TT 1913

B.A.

1889-1955. Assistant District Commissioner, Sierra Leone. Editor and publisher

Not known

No

Charles Kingsley Meek

Brasenose

1913, rejoined course in TT 1920 after war

B.A.

1885-1965. Anthropologist and colonial administrator. Assistant District Commissioner, West Africa. District Officer Census Commissioner, Nigeria, 1921. The Northern Tribes of Nigeria, 1925 A Sudanese Kingdom, 1931, Law & Authority in a Nigerian Tribe, 1937. D.Sc. Nigerian Administrative Service 1912-33, Resident. 1925-1933 was Government Anthropologist. He was appointed to a lecturership at Oxford in 1947 to teach colonial cadets. He did not stay long and was replaced by Mary Douglas in 1950.

Not known

Yes

Boris de Chrustchoff

Lincoln

MT 1913

Not known

1892-1969. Worked as bookseller, dealer and collector

Not known

Yes

Vivian Spencer Lord

[Unknown]

MT 1913

Responsions: seeking appointment in West Africa

Dates and biography unknown

Not known

No

Joseph William Horne

Magdalen

MT 1913

B.A. Seeking appointment in West Africa

Dates and biography unknown

Not known

No

Arthur Edward Sanders

Exeter

MT 1913

Qualified for B.A. degree

Dates and biography unknown

Not known

No

Oliver Cromwell Carmichael

Wadham

MT 1913

Rhodes Scholar. Responsions. M.A. Alabama University

?1891-1966. Rhodes Scholar. High School Principal and later Chanceller of Vanderbilt University, USA. See here

Diploma 1917

No

Tracy Barrett Kittredge

Exeter

MT 1913

B.A. and Fellow, University of California, U.S.A.

1891-1957 or after. American. Served in both world wars in the American navy. Passed by Committee of Anthropology 17 October 1913. U.S. Relief Commissioner in Europe. International Red Cross in Paris. See here

Diploma with Distinction. June 1914

Yes

Richard Harvey Simpson

Brasenose

MT 1913

B.A. Indiana and M.A. Harvard University, U.S.A.

1913 Rhodes Scholar. Passed by Committee of Anthropology 17 October 1913. Dates and biography unknown

Not known

No

Michael William Maxwell Windle

Exeter

MT 1913

2nd Class Honour Class. Mods

1892-1915 Lieutenant in the Devonshire Regiment during first world war. He was killed and his body was never found. See here

Certificate in Cultural Anthropology. June 1914.

No

Alexander Bainbridge Craddock

Exeter

MT 1913

3rd class Hons Mods

?-?1962. biography unknown

Not known

No

Jervoise Graham Tayler

New

MT 1913

1st Class Hons. Mods.

1892-1915. Killed in action 15 May 1915 during first world war, served in 2nd battalion Leicestershire Regiment see here

Certificate in Cultural Anthropology 1914

No

Robert Ewart Fausset

Corpus Christi

MT 1913

Not known

Dates and biography unknown

Not known

No

James Guthrie Monteath

Wadham

MT 1913

Not known

Sudan Probationer. Dates unknown. Possibly working for Unemployment Assistance Board in 1938 and Governor of Greenock Prison by 1947

Certificate in Cultural Anthropology. June 1914.

No

John Alexander Reid

Brasenose

MT 1913

Not known

Sudan Probationer. Dates and biography unknown. In 1947 he may have been Principal Information Officer, Benghazi.

Certificate in Cultural Anthropology. June 1914.

No

Edgar Richard Burgess

Magdalen

MT 1913

Not known

1891-1952. Sudan Probationer. Educated at Eton, rower and represented Great Britain at 1912 Olympics (winning a gold medal). Member of the Inner Temple and served with Sudan Political Service. Fellow of the Zoological Society. See here

Not known

No

William Jacob Bryan

Christ Church

MT 1913

Not known

1889-1916. Sudan Probationer. Born in Ireland. He served with the 15th Royal Fusiliers, he never served overseas, the regiment appears to have been a reserve one. He died in Colorado from an illness, possibly TB. See here

Not known

No

Arthur Selborne Jelf

Exeter

MT 1913

M.A. (Malay States)

1876-1947. Colonial Secretary, Jamaica, Malaysia and Singapore

Not known

No

Clement A. Miles

Exeter

MT 1913

Not known

Dates and biography unknown

Not known

No

Percy Otto St Clair Wilbraham Perryman

Balliol

MT 1913

B.A. Status

1885 or 1886-1932. Assistant Commissioner Uganda Protectorate from 1908. At Balliol 1904-8.

Not known

Yes

Henry Noel Kempthorne

Not known

MT 1913

Not known

?circa 1872-1923. Captain in the Army reserve of officers in 1911 [London Gazette 3.11.11]. Special Service in British East Africa. In 1914 he became Deputy Director of Surveys, Trig. And Topo. in Kenya [The official gazette, 27.5.14. Dates unknown

Not known

Yes

John Turnbull Kemp

Exeter

HT 1914

P. Mods

Colonial Office Candidate. Dates and biography unknown

Not known

No

Graham Fletcher Hodgson

Not known

HT 1914

Not known

District Officer, (Southern) Nigeria. In 1910 he was Assistant District Commissioner Abak, southern Nigeria. Dates and biography unknown

Not known

No

Arthur Hudson Stocks

Oriel

HT 1914

3rd class, Lit. Hum.

1889-1940, died on a ship hit by a U-boat, described as a civilian living in Freetown, Sierra Leone? In 1914 he went to Sierra Leone, and served in East Africa during the first world war. He served with the Colonial Services for 26 years and was Secretary for Protectorate Affairs in Sierra Leone. See here

Not known

No

Humphrey John Thewks Johnson

Christ Church

HT 1914

Matric. October 1909, Pass mods A1, B3, B6

Dates and biography uncertain. It is possible he is author of the book ‘Anthropology and the Fall’ published in 1923 by Basil Blackwell. He may be this person here: 'Mgr. Humphrey Johnson 1880-1958. Born in Derbyshire, educated at Eton and Christ Church. He was received into the Catholic Church in 1912 and studied for the priesthood at the Beds College in Rome. He wrote several books and reviews and was Women’s chaplain at Cambridge University college.'

Certificate in Physical Anthropology with Distinction June 1915, Certificate in Ethnology & Sociology June 1915, Diploma with distinction. June 1916.

No

David Hedog Jones

Jesus

1914

M.A.

Dates unknown. He served in the Grenadier Guards volunteer force in the first world war. The Register of Diploma students records he was Headmaster of the Boy's Secondary School, Granada, West Indies (Government Service).

Not known

No

Harry William Thomas Armstrong

Jesus

1914

2nd class Hons. Mods.

Dates and biography unknown

Not known

No

Charles Sanford Ward

Christ Church

1914

Responsions

1893-1916. It is likely that he is this person, Charles Sandford Ward, See here. Educated Eton and Christ Church, killed in active service in France.

Not known

No

Waclaw de Rostkowski

Marcon's Hall

1914

Chemistry, Zoology, Botany Prelims

Dates and biography unknown

Not known

No

Arthur Maurice Hocart

Exeter

1914

B.A.

1884-1939. Fieldwork in Fiji stayed on as headmaster. Curator of Antiquities, Ceylon; Professor of Sociology, Cairo. Kingship 1927, Progress of Man, Kings and Councillors. Hocart read Greats at Exeter, where presumably Marett was his tutor, and studied psychology with Wilde’s Reader in Mental Philosophy, William McDougall who had been a member of the Torres Straits expedition. On coming down, Hocart joined the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Pacific, and when he enrolled on the Diploma course in 1914 he had completed six years of fieldwork. As a Diploma student, not only did he deliver a course of lectures on ‘Problems in Anthropology’ but also served as deputy Wilde’s Reader for a term while McDougall was away.

Not known

Yes

Charles Alexander Henderson

Exeter

1914

B.A.

Indian Civil Service. Dates and biography unknown. In 1938 he was a member of the Board of Revenue, Madras.

Not known

No

John George Stevenson (Reverend)

Exeter

MT 1914

Queen's University of Belfast, B.A. (2nd class, History, Law)

Dates and biography unknown

Not known

No

William Hubbs Mechling

Not known

MT 1914

M.A., Harvard University, B.S., M.A. University of Pennsylvania

1888-1953. Anthropologist and archaeologist. Worked at Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Received his doctorate from Harvard in 1917, worked as an American spy during the first world war according to here

Diploma, June 1916

Yes

Walter Carl Barnes

Lincoln

MT 1914

Pass Mods A & B

Rhodes Scholar. Dates and biography unknown

Not known

No

Edwin Oliver James (Reverend)

Exeter

MT 1914

Priest's Orders (with Prel. Exam including Latin and Greek), F.C.S.

1886-1972. Professor of History and Philosophy of Religion, University of London and Leeds Primitive Ritual & Belief 1916. Introduction to Anthropology 1919. The Stone Age 1927. The Beginnings of Man 1928. The Origins of Sacrifice 1933. The Old Testament in the light of Anthropology 1935. The Origins of Religion 1937 etc. At the end of his life he was Chaplain at All Souls.

Certificate in physical Anthropology. June 1915. Diploma. June 1916.

Yes

Thomas Humfrey Vines

Jesus

HT 1915

M.A. (allowed on term for anthropological work done at Harvard University)

Possibly 1864-1922. Biography unknown

Diploma. June 1915.

Yes

Constance Jenkinson (Mrs)

Not known

HT 1915

Admitted by committee on strength of modern languages etc.

Dates and biography unknown. Died while preparing for B.Sc. In Magic and Medicine

Diploma. June 1916

No

Philip Henry Brodie

Worcester

1915

Qualified for B.A. (Pass) from University of Arkansas

1891-1975. 1913 Rhodes Scholar. He served in World War I and later taught classics at the Canterbury (preparatory) School in Connecticut to, among others, John Kennedy

Diploma. June 1916.

No

Joseph Fawcett

Exeter (NB Finally did not join)

TT 1915

M.A., University of Durham

Dates unknown. Clergyman

Not known

No

Madeleine Elise or Eliza Emily Holland (Mrs)

Oxford Home Students

MT 1915

South African University Intermediate Arts.

1874-1922. Nee Orpen. Died while working for B.Sc. on the Bantu. Poet. Married to Arthur Herbert Holland, she had one son. Her husband was personal secretary to Cecil Rhodes

Certificate in Physical Anthropology, 1916. Diploma with Distinction, 1917.

Yes

Madeleine [de] La Vie Platts (Mrs)

Unknown

MT 1915

B.A. Trinity College Dublin. Honours English Oxford.

1883-. Born in Ireland, went to live in Oxford to live with an uncle on her mother’s death. She was educated at Dublin. In 1909 she met her husband W.A.F. Platts, an assistant District Commissioner in British East Africa. They married in 1910 and returned to Africa. [See ‘The Rulers of British Africa, 1870-1914’ by Lewis H. Gann, Peter Duignan

Not known

No

Marion Alice Nona Marshall

St. Hugh’s

MT 1915

Final Honours School of English

Dates and biography unknown. Author of a book, ‘Hastings Saga’ (A history of the Wenham family) 1953.

Not known

No

Rosalind Louisa Beaufort Moss

Oxford Home Students

HT 1916

Oxford Senior Locals, Honours; Higher Cert. French (distinction) & German

1890-1990. Egyptologist and bibliographer. Excavated in Jersey with R.R. Marett. See here

Diploma with Distinction, 1917.

Yes

Cecilia Mostyn Field

Somerville

1916

Cambridge Previous - Equivalent to Resp.

1896-after 1982. Probably daughter of Admiral Sir Arthur Mostyn Field, who commanded HMS Penguin, Dart and Egeria. Biography unknown

Not known

No

Edward Humphrey Lane Poole

Balliol

1916

B.A.

1888- ? Educated, Rugby; Magdalen College School; Balliol 1908-12 (A.W.P.C., A.L.S.); 3rd Class Mods. 1910; 2nd Mod. History and B.A. 1912; Torpid; Eight. B.S.A. Co.’s service 1913; Colonial Civil Service from 1924; North Rhodesia, District Magistrate, 1926. (Rhodesian Service). Provincial Commissioner, Barotse Province, Northern Rhodesia November 1937. Commissioner Livingstone. Keeper of the Archives, Fellow of Magdalen College, and Lecturer in Diplomatic in the University of Oxford.

Not known

Yes

Vigo Auguste Demant

Exeter

1916

(Manchester College), B.Sc. Durhman University

1893-1983 Priest in London and Oxford, also social philosopher and theologian. Also educated at the Sorbonne and Armstrong College, Eventually Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University Oxford. See here and here

Certificate in Physical Anthropology with Distinction 1917, Certificate in Cultural Anthropology 1917, Diploma in Technology (to complete Diploma Exam), 1920.

Yes

Marguerite Muriel Culpeper Pollard

Oxford Home Students

1916

Honour School of English, Diploma of Education

1879-1939. Born in Georgetown, Guyana, died in Oxford. Daughter of William Branch Pollard, Colonial Civil Engineer for British Guiana until he retired in 1880. Unmarried, author. B.A. B.Litt

Diploma in 1917

Yes

Félicie Marshall (Mrs)

Lady Margaret Hall

1916

Honour School of English.

Dates and biography unknown

Not known

No

Margery Christina Huckett

Lady Margaret Hall

1916

Hon. Class. Mods.

1894-? Born in Apia, Upolu, Samoa. Daughter of Walter Huckett, a missionary.

Diploma in Anthropology, 1918

No

Beatrice Mary Blackwood

Somerville

MT 1916

Hon. Sch. Eng. Lit. 1912

See here

Certificate in Cultural Anthropology. 1917. Diploma with Distinction 1918

Yes

Velizar Vladimivovitch Godjevatz

New

1917

Serbian Govt. "Vishi Tetchajuis Ispit" Maturitatspuafung

?1898-1986 Later developed a duodecimal musical notation.

Not known

No

Helen de Guerry de Lauret Simpson

Oxford Home Students

TT 1917

B2 etc.

1897-1940. Australian writer. See here According to ADB she came to Oxford in September 1915 and read French 1916-7. In 1918 she joined the WRNS and decoded. She then returned to Oxford to study music in 1920, but she did not complete her degree. It seems likely that she did not stay on the Diploma course for long.

Not known

No

Robert de Jersey Fleming-Struthers

Exeter

MT 1917

M.A., B.Sc.

Dates and biography unknown. In 1909 he seems to have published a chemistry paper in the Journal of the Chemical Society Transactions 1909, 95 1777-1789.

Certificate in Cultural Anthropology (Social Anthropology) 1918

No

Kavalam Mathava Panikkar

Christ Church

MT 1917

Mod. Hist. Honours (1st Class), Oxford

1895-1963. First Editor of the Hindustan Times and worked in various States administrations, after independence worked as diplomat. After retiring he became Vice-Chancellor of several universities in India

Certificate in Cultural (Social) Anthropology with Distinction, 1918.

No

Basanta Kumar Mallik

Exeter

MT 1917

Law, Honours, Oxford.

1879-1958. Philosopher. Academic at Oxford, interested in conflict

Certificate in Cultural (Social) Anthropology 1918. Certificate in Physical Anthropology, 1918. Diploma, 1919.

No

Helen Juliet Rachel Fox

Oxford Home Students

MT 1917

Read Modern History School Admitted by committee, 19 October 1917

1890-?. Daughter of Samuel Middleton Fox. Married Roger Ernie Money-Kyrie, a noted psychoanalyst, in 1922.

Diploma, 1918

No

Margaret Agnes Westlake

St. Hugh's

MT 1917

Pass. Mods.

1896-? Daughter of Ernest Westlake, donor to Pitt Rivers Museum. Biography unknown

Certificate in Physical Anthropology, 1918. Diploma, 1919.

No

Dragutin Subotic

St. John's

MT 1917

Ph.D. Munich. Serbian Refugee Student. Admitted October 19, 1917.

1887-1952. Educated at the Universities of Belgrade & Munich. In 1916 came to live in Britain as the result of World War One. From 1916-1919 worked as a supervisor of Serbian students at Oxford University. In 1919 appointed lecturer in Serbo-Croat at School of Slavonic Studies, King's College London, remained in this post until retirement in 1942. He also worked for the Yugoslav Legation as a cultural attaché.

Not known

No

Marjory Sophie West

St. Hilda's

MT 1917

Pan B.D., Lond.

Dates unknown. Studied at Bedford College in 1905 in Classics [2nd class], possibly the first woman to gain the London BD, and a former Birkbeck Continuing Education lecturer in Biblical Studies

Not known

No

Vadaka Kurupath Raman Menon

Hertford

HT 1918

B.A.

Dates unknown. From Cochin State, India. Listed in the Admissions Register for Lincoln Inn 1912, called 1917.

Certificate in Cultural (Social) Anthropology, 1918

Yes

Wulfstan ?Natham

Exeter

HT 1918

Hon. Moderations (Classics)

Dates and biography unknown

Certificate in Cultural (Social) Anthropology, 1918

No

John Eric Langdon-Davies

St. John's

HT 1918

Resp. I excused Mods.

1897-1971 born in South Africa. He was called up in 1917 but refused to wear uniform, was jailed and discharged. He intended to continue studying at St John’s but he lost 2 scholarships due to his military views and his marriage in 1918. He therefore turned to the diploma in anthropology. He was a journalist, author and war correspondent. See here.

Certificate in Cultural (Social) Anthropology 1918. Certificate in Physical Anthropology, 1918.

No

Sidney Herbert Scott

St. John's

TT 1918

B.Litt. Oxon, M.A. of Durham

Dates unknown. Clergyman and author

Not known

No

Nina Margaret Ruffer

Somerville

TT 1918

Resp. French ?group

1897 - Died of Influenza August 1919

Not known

Yes

Rachel Spenser Tidderman

Oxford Home Students

MT 1918

Higher Cert. (French). Cambridge Senior

Circa 1897 in Glamorgan, living in Oxford in 1911. biography unknown

Not known

No

Constance Rina Langdon-Davies [Mrs]

Somerville

HT 1919

History Prelims

1898-1954 married to John Eric Langdon-Davies in 1918? Possibly artist, believer in Bahai faith.

Not known

No

Donald Swain Wintersgill

Exeter

HT 1919

Military Service

?-1982. Company director, Yorkshire

Certificate in Cultural (Social) Anthropology, 1919

No

Louis Colville Gray Clarke

Exeter

HT 1919

B.A. Camb.

See here

Not known

Yes

Arthur James Willis

Exeter

HT 1919

Military Service

Dates and biography unknown

Certificate in Cultural (Social) Anthropology, 1919

No

Henry Mullinor Morris

Exeter

HT 1919

Military Service

Dates and biography unknown

No

Clifford Henry Benn Kitchin

Exeter

HT 1919

Military Service

1895-1967. Barrister and Novelist. See here

Certificate in Cultural (Social) Anthropology, 1919

No

Eric John Horatio Edenborough

Lincoln

TT 1919

B.A.

1893-1965. Clerk, House of Commons 1921-1958.

Not known

No

Thomas Downing Kendrick

Oriel

TT 1919

Prel. Sci.

1895-1979. Keeper, Dept. British Mediaeval Antiquities, Director, British Museum. See here and here

Diploma with Distinction TT 1920

No

Barry Lappage Garrard

Exeter

TT 1919

B.A. London University

Dates and biography unknown Research work submitted at time of examination :- (1) An Exercise in the Comparative Method: The principles of blood-letting among the English from the Earliest Times. (2) An Exercise in Ethnological Method: Distribution of race and culture in Melanesia. (3) An Analysis of the materials relating to the Distribution of Palaeolithic Man. Dates and biography unknown

Diploma in Anthropology, 1920

No

Edward Laurence Hyde

Exeter

TT 1919

Military Service

Dates and biography unknown

Certificate in Physical Anthropology, TT 1920, Diploma, 1921.

No

William Walter Negley

Merton

HT 1919

Captain. Federal Artillery U.S. Army

1895-1932. Attended Phillips Exeter, and graduated from Yale in 1916. He joined the army in 1917 and enrolled in the first officers training camp at Camp Bullis, San Antonio. He spent time in France as a captain and staff munitions officer. Married Roxana Gage in 1924 and lived on a ranch in Fort Davis, Texas. He died of a burst appendix in 1932. See here

Not known

No

George Duncan Kirkpatrick

Mansfield

HT 1919

Chaplain U.S. Army

Dates and biography unknown, presumably clergyman

Not known

No

Margaret Morgan Powell

Oxford Home Students

HT 1919

Diploma in Geography

Dates and biography unknown

Not known

No

Alfred Clair Underwood

Mansfield

HT 1919

M.A. Oxon. And B.D. Lond.

1885-1948. Clergyman. Published book on Shintoism, India and religious matters

Not known

No

Gerald Legh Malins McElligott

Hertford

1919

Military. Service (Captain Special Reserve)

1897-1972. Born in Derbyshire, educated at Stoneyhurst, served in the Munster Fusiliers. After his service in France he was seconded to the Gold Coast Regiment (West African Frontier Force) and served in West Africa until the war ended when he joined the Colonial Service as a District Commissioner for about a year. In 1920 [sic] he went up to Oxford (Hertford College) and graduated B.A. in 1923 and then St Thomas’s where he qualified in 1926. Eventually Consultant venereologist at St Mary’s Hospital, London. Brit. J. vener. Dis. (1972) 48, 553

Not known

No

Francis Edgar Williams

Balliol

MT 1919

Hon. Class. B.A. 1st class, Adelaide University

1893-1943. Government Anthropologist. Port Moresby, Papua. Orokaiva Magic, Orokaiva, Papuans of the Trans-Fly, many shorter reports. Killed in aeroplane accident, New Guinea. See here

Diploma in Anthropology with Distinction, TT 1920

Yes

William Edward Morris

Exeter

MT 1919

Military Service in lieu of Resp.

Dates and biography unknown

Not known

No

Louis Marie Riviére

Not known

MT 1919

Admitted under stat. Viii. Sect. Xvi. 3. Over 25 and of good character.

Licencé a lettres, Université de Paris. Souvets Evangelique 1913. Dates and biography unknown

Diploma in Anthropology TT 1920

No

José Maria Batista y Roca

Exeter

MT 1919

Licenciado en Filosofie, Universitad de Barcelona

1895-1978. Professor at Barcelona University interested in the anthropology of Catalonia. See here

Diploma in Anthropology TT 1920

No

Robert Douglas Downes

Corpus Christi

MT 1919

M.A.

1878-1957. Known as Douglas. In 1896 he went to Corpus Christi to study classics and then history, after a year at Wycliffe Hall in 1900-1 he was ordained. From 1904-1914 he worked in India. He served as a chaplain in the war, and immediately after the war he worked as a student chaplain. IN 1931 he became a Franciscan friar. See here

Not known

No

Charles Woodehouse Williams

Oriel

MT 1919

Not known

Sudan Probationer. Dates and biography unknown

Not known

No

Ian Meredith Bruce-Gardyne

Balliol

MT 1919

B.A.

Sudan Probationer. 1895-1964. Soldier and Sudan Political Officer, see here.

Not known

No

Brian Kennedy Cook

Worcester

MT 1919

Not known

Sudan Probationer. 1894-1945. Served in the Sudan Political Service from 1920-1943. From 1943 worked for the British Council in UK and Italy see here

Not known

No

Gerard Bruce Crole

University

Michaelmas Term 1919

B.A.

Sudan Probationer. 1894-1965. Studied for BA before 1914, joined Dragoon Guards in 1914 and later served in Royal Flying Corps where he was considered a flying ace. He played rugby for Scotland. He served in Sudan Political Service from 1920 to 1944, ending up as Deputy Governor, El Fasher, Darfur. He may also have been a solicitor or a schoolteacher! See here, also see here and here

Not known

No

Douglas Newboldt

Oriel

MT 1919

Not known

Sudan Probationer. 1894-1945 Entered Sudan Political Service in 1920, from 1932-28 he was Governor of Kordofan. From 1939 till death he was Civil Secretary of Sudan. See here

Not known

No

George Howells

Jesus

HT 1920

M.A. Christ's College, Cambridge; B.Litt., Oxford.

It is probable that he is this George Howells, 1871-1955, Welsh academic and writer, principal of Serampore College from 1907-1932, see here, who studied at Jesus college and also at Ch.Ch. Cambridge

Not known

No

George Henry Green

Exeter

HT 1920

B.Sc. London

Dates and biography unknown

Certificate in Cultural Anthropology (Social Anthropology with Distinction, TT 1920)

No

Brahmadeo Prasad Jamnar

Jesus

HT 1920

Resp. with Add. Subjt.

Dates and biography unknown

Not known

No

John Wilfrid Walker

Pembroke

HT 1920

Hon. Mods. 2nd class.

Dates and biography unknown

Not known

No

John Seaforth Marten-Harvey

Christ Church

HT 1920

Military Service (4.5 years)

Possibly 1897-1975, if his full name was John Seaforth Elton Martin Harvey. Actor, stage name of Michael Martin-Harvey, he was the son of Sir John Martin-Harvey [also an actor, see here].

Certificate in Cultural (Social) Anthropology, June 1921. Certificate in Cultural (Technology) Anthropology, June 1922.

Yes

Mario Pinto Levy

Trinity

HT 1920

Resp. Mods. Military Service

Dates and biography unknown. Probably this person: … Mario Pinto Levy. C'était un homme charmant, imperturbable et généreux. Descendant d'une famille anglaise enracinée au Portugal de longue date, il était un grand mutilé de la guerre de 1914-1918, ayant subi une fracture au crâne, sauvé par son ordonnance qui l'avait traîné à l'abri. Guéri, il s'occupa des plantations de cacao familiales à Madère et de la maison ancestrale à Lisbonne, au coeur de la capitale. ... À la deuxième guerre, il refusa de vendre son cacao aux Allemands, malgré des offres alléchantes. Après la débâcle de 1940 il mit sa maison à la disposition du consulat anglais pour y héberger ceux qui étaient en route pour reprendre le combat. ...’ See  here

Not known

No

Mary Angela Mond

Lady Margaret Hall

HT 1920

Resp.

Probably 1901-1937. Full name Mary Angela Willoughby Mond. Daughter of the Minister of Health Alfred Moritz Mond, 1st Baron Melchett. Married Neville Arthur Pearson in 1922 and then Clifford Willoughby Peter Hordern in 1928.

Not known

No

William Montgomery McGovern

Christ Church

HT 1920

Ph.D. Tokyo (Anthropological Research Scholar to Japanese Government)

1897-1964. School of Oriental Studies, London Institution. Original Work sent in at Examination - Native Tribes of Formosa, To Lhasa in Disguise Travelled extensively in Asia.   Returned to USA as Assistant Curator of the Anthropology Department at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History.   In 1929 appointed Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University; promoted to full professor 1936 held position until death. Described in Wikipedia as the inspiration for the character of Indiana Jones

Not known

No

Eion Pelly Donaldson

Oriel

TT 1920

Lit. Hum (Shortened Course)

1896-1963. Soldier, colonial administrator and civil servant, India Office

Not known

No

Aylam Subramanier Panchabagesa Ayyar

Not known

MT 1920

Hist. Previous

Dates and biography unknown

Not known

No

Kumara Padma Sivasankara Menon

Christ Church

MT 1920

Hist. Previous

1898-1982. Diplomat in Indian Civil Service. See here

Not known

No

Francis Bacon Lothrop

Trinity

MT 1920

3 years course at Harvard, including Anthropology

1898-1986. Seems to have lived in Boston, USA

Diploma in anthropology, June 1921.

No

Ruth Wedgwood Doggett

Lady Margaret Hall

MT 1920

B.A. Harvard

1896-1968. She studied at Berkeley, and then graduated from Radcliffe, she taught economics. Her obituary in Renaissance Quarterly says she studied for a Diploma in Economics during her year at Oxford. Married Clarence Kennedy in 1921 in London. She became Professor at Smith College and distinguished historian of Italian renaissance art.

Not known

No

Janet Blair McGovern

Oxford Home Students

MT 1920

B. Litt. Shorten College, Georgia, U.S.A.

Probably Janet Blair Montgomery McGovern 1879-?. Mother of William Montgomery McGovern and wife of Felix Daniel McGovern, an army officer. They travelled a great deal.

Diploma in Anthropology, June 1921

Yes

Isabel Marjorie Russell

Oxford Home Students

MT 1920

War service plus good school report. Admitted by Committee, 15 October 1920

?-?1969 Possibly celebrated horticulturalist, rare plant specialist and second wife of Ellery Sedgwick see here

Diploma in Anthropology, June 1921

No

Edward Joseph Anthony Richardson Loughrey

Queen's

MT 1920

Military Service excusing Resp.

Dates and biography unknown. Served with Royal Innis Fusiliers during first world war.

Not known

No

Alice Margaret Stevenson

Somerville

MT 1920

M.A. Oxon. M.A. D.Sc. Dublin

Dates and biography unknown

Not known

No