Melville William Hilton-Simpson

Career Anthropologist / Army / Traveller

Biography Diploma student at the Pitt Rivers Museum, he travelled widely in Africa collecting and carrying out anthropological research [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 26/02/2007]

Biography References Man, Vol. XXXVIII, no. 6 (June 1938), p. 93 / Who was Who 2007 / ISCA Diploma Register / http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0025-1496%28193806%291%3A38%3C93%3A9MWH1M%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U

Clubs & Societies Athenaeum / Royal Anthropological Institute [& earlier manifestations] / Royal Geographical Society / Zoological Society / Royal Belgian Geographical / Folklore Society / Oxford University Anthropological Society

County Kent / Oxfordshire / London [Greater]

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1938

Dates active 1881-1938

Donated around 1938

English collections Hunting-horn, coach-horn, stone tools, sprigs of saffron believed to prevent conception, surgical razor

Oxford Uni College Exeter College

Oxford Uni Education Yes

Oxford Uni date 1900-1903, 1911

Oxford based Yes

Date in Oxford 1900-1903, 1911

English collection size 7