The following list was taken from the minute books and meetings books of the Oxford University Anthropological Society for the period 1909, when the society was founded, to 1920, by Alison Petch in September 2012. Unfortunately there does not appear to have be a surviving complete membership list and the society does not often record the name for founding members, or applications for new membership. This list is therefore not complete but gives an idea of the breadth of membership both in terms of age-range, and also status and experience.
See also Lectures held at the Oxford University Anthropological Society meetings
and Papers of the OU Anthropological Society.
Known members:
Miss Phyllis Abrahams – Appears to be a medievalist who co-authored some OUP books about medieval latin and edited other books on medieval topics in French, M.A. D. Univ. Paris
Mr L’Avdira – I suspect this name is wrong, I can find no information about the person.
Mr Aylam Subramanier Panchabagesa Ayyar – Diploma Student – See here
Henry Balfour – See here
Edith Marie Louise Balfour [associate member] ?1867-1938. Daughter of RF. Wilkins and wife of Henry Balfour [qv], she shared many of his interests and travels.
Mr C. Barnes – Nothing known
Mr Walter C. Barnes [see above ?same person] – Nothing known
Dr Bassil / Bastill – Nothing known
Jose Maria Batista y Roca – Diploma Student – See here
Beatrice Braithwaite Batty – (1833-1933) Traveller, missionary and editor. In 1882 she settled in Crick Road, Oxford and was a ‘fervent attender of societies’. She gave much of her collection to the Pitt Rivers Museum, her papers are in the Bodleian. [based on her obituary in The Times]
Alexander James Montgomery Bell – (1845-1920) Schoolmaster and amateur archaeologist, his large collection of stone tools was donated to the Pitt Rivers Museum after his death.
Mr S. Bell – Nothing known
Miss Margaret Elizabeth Bickersteth – 1882-? of Headington, Oxford. Information found via 1911 census, nothing else known
Dr Biggs – Nothing known
Aylward Manley Blackman – (1883-1956) Egyptologist and brother of Winifred Blackman [qv]. Excavating and Oxford University Nubian research scholar 1910, Laycock Student of Egyptology at Worcester College 1912-1918. later Professor of Egyptology, Liverpool University and Special Lecturer in Egyptology University of Manchester
Miss E. Blackman [assoc member] – probably Elsie Blackman, (1874-1950) second daughter of Mrs Blackman [qv] and younger sister of Winifred [qv] and older sister of Aylward [qv]
Miss Winifred Blackman – Diploma Student – See here and See here
Mrs Blackman [assoc. member] – probably Anne Mary Blackman, parent of Winifred and Aylward Blackman.
Miss Beatrice Blackwood – Diploma Student – See here and See here
Henrietta Jex-Blake (1862-1953) Principal of Lady Margaret Hall from 1909 to 1921.
Miss Bland – Nothing known
Herbert Joseph Weld-Blundell – (1852-1935) B. Litt Queens College, Oxford. Expedition leader
George Colby Hawkins Borley – Diploma Student – See here
Gilbert Charles Bourne (1861-1933) Linacre professor of zoology and comparative anatomy, fellow of Merton College from 1906-1921.
Mr H.N. Bradbrooke – someone with same surname and initials served in the army in the first world war and then became a medic, it may be the same person. His full name was Hugh Nash Bradbrooke born 1900.
Philip Henry Brodie – Diploma Student – See here
Mr Gordon Browne – a Gordon Browne was married to Flora Blackman, one of the Blackman family (see above), the middle daughter. He is described as a Lt in the Worcestershire Regiment and might be the same person.
Mr Browne – Nothing known, unless it is Mr Gordon Browne above
Mr J.M. Buchanan – Nothing known
Miss Buckler – Nothing known
Miss Bullen – Nothing known
Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton – Diploma Student – See here and see here
George Reginald Carline – Diploma Student – See here and see here
Stanley Casson – (1889-1944) Senior Scholar St John’s College 1912. Assistant Director of British School of Athens 1919-1922, Fellow of New College, Oxford 1920, later Reader in Classical Archaeology, University of Oxford
Miss Alice Chance – Nothing known
Mr A. Chandler – Nothing known
Louis Colville Gray Clarke – Diploma Student – See here and see here
Alan Herbert Coltart – Diploma Student – See here
Miss Agnes Margaret Cooke – Looking at the 1911 census it is possible to find 3 people with the same name as the Cooke women who were members who are associated with the following dates: 1902-1985 living in Christchurch, Hampshire, in 1911. These may be the right people. Daughters of Canon George Albert Cooke and Frances Helen Anderson, Agnes married Cecil Harmsworth King in 1923 see here. Her father was Oriel Professor of the interpretation of holy scripture from 1908, in 1914 he was appointed Regius professor of Hebrew and canon of Christ Church.
Miss Frances Helen Cooke see above. 1902-?
Miss Mary Cooke see above 1899-?
Mrs Counsell – Nothing known
Mr Coventry – Nothing known
Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford – Diploma Student – See here. Graduated 1910 and was junior demonstrator Dept of Geography until end 1911.
Mr R. Crewe – Nothing known
Miss Cumming [?Cunning] – Nothing known
Maria Czaplicka – Diploma Student – See here and see here
Vigo Auguste Demant - Diploma Student – See here
Mr Davies – Nothing known
John Eric Langdon-Davies – Diploma Student – See here
A.H.P. Llewellyn Davies [same person as Davies above?] – Served in the Machine Gun Corps as a Lieutenant and in 1917 in the Tank Corps as a 2nd lieutenant, nothing else can be found out.
Miss M.P. Dawson – Nothing known
Mrs Deneke – this was possibly Clara Sophie Deneke (1847-1933) nee Overweg, author and mother of Margaret and Helena Clara Deneke who were both Fellows of LMH, a building is named after her in the college, built in 1932. Her papers were given to the Bodleian Library, or it could be her daughters. Helena Clara Deneke (1878-1973) German Scholar see here. Margaret Deneke (1882-1969) was a musicologist. However the first is most likely as the daughters did not marry,
Mr Walter-Derdy (or Dendy?] – Nothing known
Mr W.H. Dixon – Nothing known
Edward Spencer Dodgson – (1857-1922) Basque scholar, Jesus College, Oxford
Ruth Wedgwood Doggett – Diploma Student – See here
Mr C.F.T. East – Nothing known
Eric John Horatio Edenborough – Diploma Student – See here
Charles Abram Ellwood (1873-1946) American sociologist, who studied at Oxford for a short time and is presumably the right match?
Miss Evans - ?Possibly Joan Evans (1893-1977) Daughter of John Evans, educated at St Hugh’s College, Oxford where she took a diploma in archaeology in 1916 and B. Litt in 1920.
Miss Ewbank – This is probably Miss Elinor Ewbank of Park Town, Oxford who donated some objects of her mother’s in 1957? Under the direction of Professor Dorothy Garrod, the first female professor at Oxford University, Miss Elinor Ewbank participated in an archaeological excavation at the Mount Carmel Caves site in 1929. She studied at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
Mr Fagan – this could be the Major Fagan of Banbury Road, Oxford who donated Japanese objects in 1936 to the Pitt Rivers Museum
Lewis Richard Farnell (1856-1905) Oxford University Lecturer in classical archaeology 1903-1914, first Wilde lecturer in natural and comparative religion 1908-1911. See here
Shirley Mary Sylvia Farnell (1895-?)– only daughter of Lewis Richard Farnell (see above). Name given by here
Cecilia Mostyn Field – Diploma Student – See here
Mr H.L. Fletcher – Nothing known
Mr W. B… Fletcher – Nothing known
Helen Juliet Rachel Fox – Diploma Student – See here
Mrs Frick – Nothing known
Captain B. Gardner – it seems unlikely but this could be Percy Gardner (1846-1937) Lincoln and Merton professorship of classical archaeology from 1887, worked at Ashmolean Museum [not clear why it says Captain though and initial wrong!] There is a Lt Commander Ernest Arthur Gardner who was a vice president of Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies who could also be person, but again wrong initial. He was brother of Percy Gardner, see above.
Mrs Gardner – if the above is correct then this could be Agnes nee Reid (?-1933) [for first option] or Mary nee Wilson (1887-1936)
Barry Lappage Garrard – Diploma Student – See here
Christina Hallowell Garrett – Probably the author of ‘The Marian Exiles’ (1938). I can find nothing else about her
Miss M. Giles – Nothing known
Mr C. Goddam – Nothing known [name probably slightly mistranscribed?]
Velizar Vladimivovitch Godjevatz – Diploma Student – See here
Edwin Stephen Goodrich – (1868-1946) Aldrichian demonstrator in comparative anatomy University of Oxford later special professor of comparative embryology from 1919, in 1921 he succeeded G.C. Bourne [qv] as Linacre professor of zoology and comparative anatomy
Helen Lucia Mary Goodrich – wife of E.S. Goodrich [qv], nee Pixell, a protozoologist
Angus Graham – Diploma Student – See here
Mr G.H. Green – Nothing known
Miss I.J. Gregory – Nothing known
Mr Gresman – Nothing known
Miss A. Grey – Nothing known
Miss Grove – Nothing known
Miss Hadow – The most likely is Grace Eleanor Hadow (1875-1940) author and principal of St Anne’s College, who taught at Somerville College from 1904 [according to wikipiedia] and 1906 at Lady Margaret Hall according to DNB, about whom Helena Deneke [qv] wrote a book. There is also a Miss E.J. Hadow who donated to the PRM but it is via Gloucester Public Museum in 1944 and doesn’t seem likely to be the right person. See here
Mr Berners Hall – Nothing known
William Reginald Halliday – (1886-1966) Studied at Oxford 1908-1909. Greek Archaeologist, Lecturer on Greek history and Archaeology at the University of Galsgow 1911-1914, Rathbone Professor of Ancient History University of Liverpool 1914-1928
Mr N.W. Hammond – Nothing known
Charles Reginald Schiller Harris (1896-1979) Fellow of All Souls, author (of a wide variety of material including ancient greek medicine, and European history) NPG describes him as editor of the Economist and lecturer in humanities.
Mr Hart – Nothing known
John Seaforth Martin Harvey – Diploma Student – See here
Mr Vivian Harvey – Nothing known
Miss Hatchett – Nothing known, however likely to be linked to Charles Hatchett, and possibly the Hatchett Jacksons, several of whom are connected to the University and Pitt Rivers Museum by donations etc.
Mr A.W. Hay – Nothing known
Miss Hayes – Nothing known
Mr Heley – Nothing known
David George Hogarth – See here
Madeleine Elise Holland – Diploma Student – See here
George Howells – Diploma Student – See here
John Henry Hutton – (1885-1968) Indian Civil Service and anthropologist specialising in the Naga of NE India. First Professor of Social Anthropology at University of Cambridge. See here
Miss Huxley – Nothing known
Mr Hoseley – Nothing known
Mr A. Howland – Nothing known
Mrs C.A. James – Nothing known
Edwin Oliver James – Diploma Student – See here
Mr Miller James – Nothing known
Miss Keith-Japp – Nothing known
Mr Keith-Japp – Nothing known [NB these two are presumably related, probably father and daughter]
Mr Jenkinson – Nothing known
Constance Jenkinson – Diploma Student – See here
Diamond Jenness – Diploma Student – See here
Humphrey John Thewks Johnson – Diploma Student – See here
Mr J. Johnston – Nothing known
Mr G.E. Kamm – he wrote a letter with others in 1931 about Whistler, he was working for George C. Harrap & Co Ltd, publishers see here, he may have been a student when a member?
Thomas Downing Kendrick – Diploma Student – See here
Miss Ketelby – it seems a Miss Ketelby may have taught history possibly at Somerville College [taken from Kathleen Ollerenshaw’s autobiography ‘To Talk of many things’]
Mr King – possibly Cecil Harmsworth King, (1901-1987) Christ Church, see Agnes Cooke’s entries above for why. Newspaper magnate, his father donated material to the Pitt Rivers Museum and was Professor of Oriental Languages at Trinity College London. Matriculated 1919
Janet Kirkaldy bequeathed objects in 1932 and is probably the same person?
Stephen Herbert Langdon (1876-1937) American born with a Ph.D from Columbia, he became Shillito Reader in Assyriology in 1908, Professor of Assyriology in 1919.
Mr Laurence – Nothing known
Miss Laurence – Nothing known
Edward Thurlow Leeds – (1877-1955) Assistant Keepr, Dept of Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum from 1908, Keeper from 1928.
Alice Marjory Leeds – wife of above
Mr V.F. Lempriere – Nothing known
Mario Pinto Levy – Diploma Student – See here
Miss M. Gaynor Lewis – Nothing known
Herbert Loewe – (1882-1940) Scholar of Semitic languages. Lecturer in Oriental Languages at Exeter College from 1913 until 1931. Key part of Jewish community life in Oxford. See here and here
Miss G. Loring – Nothing known
Mrs Lyon – Nothing known
Mr Macfarlane – Nothing known
Miss E.L. MacLeod – Nothing known
Basanta Kumar Mallik – Diploma Student – See here
Mr Mann – Nothing known
Percy Manning (1870-1917) Antiquary and folklorist. See here
Robert Ranulph Marett – See here
Barbara Freire Marreco – Diploma Student – See here and see here
Miss M.A. Marshall – Nothing known
Felicie Marshall – Diploma Student – See here
Percy Ewing Matheson (1859-1946) Fellow and Dean of New College, Delegate of Oxford University Press. Classicist
Miss K.H. McCutcheon Lady Margaret Hall. Oxford Hellenic studies, member of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1917-18. Also member of the Socieety of Oxford Women Tutors.
Janet Blair McGovern – Diploma Student – See here
Miss McMunn – Nothing known
William Hubbs Mechling – Diploma Student – See here
Mary Angela Mond – Diploma Student – See here
James Drummond C. Monfries – member of the Inns of Court Officer Training Corps in 1915, enlisted August 1915 discharged as unfit in July 1917. Seems to have contributed to ‘Innermost Asia’ by Aurel Stein in 1928. See here. Author of ‘Unto this last’ and several other books and edited works.
Revd Canon Moore – probably Edward Moore (1835-1916) Principal of St Edmund Hall until 1913 and canon of Canterbury Cathedral. See here
Mr Morgan – Nothing known
William Edward Morris – Diploma Student – See here
Amabel Nevile Gwyn Moseley [associate member] – (?1855-1928) nee Jeffreys, later married W.J. Sollas [qv]
Mr H. Moss – possibly Rosalind Moss’s [qv] father Henry Whitehead Moss (1841-1917) see here, though he was ordained. He lived in Headington from 1907 though.
Rosalind Louisa Beaufort Moss – Diploma Student – See here
John Linton Myres – See here
Kavalam Mathava Panikkar – Diploma Student – See here
Mr G.O. Parsons – Nothing known
Francis William Pember – (1862-1954) Warden of All Souls from 1914-1932. Lawyer, later served as Vice-Chancellor
Margaret Bowen Pember – wife of above, Hon. Margaret Bowen nee Davey, (1868-1942) Married 1895.
Katharine Pember – (1901-1986) later Katherine Darwin, Lady Darwin when married Sir Charles Galton Darwin. Daughter of Francis William Pember [qv]
Francis Turville-Petre (1901-1941) Diploma Student in Anthropology from 1921, up at Exeter College in 1920. An archaeologist.
Mrs Pettullo [?Pattullo] – Nothing known
Miss Pitman – Nothing known
Madeleine de la vie Platts – Diploma Student – See here
Marguerite Muriel Culpeper Pollard – Diploma Student – See here
Mr K.B. Polter – Nothing known
Miss K.M. Pond– Nothing known
Mary Poyntz – Diploma Student – See here
Mr R. La Queens [sic] – Nothing known
Courtenay Arthur Ralegh Radford (1900-1998) Archaeologist, studied modern history at Exeter College from 1918. See here
Mr A. Rau – Nothing known
Mr G.J. Rees – Nothing known
Kathleen Rishbeth – (1888-1961) nee Kathleen Haddon, zoologist, photographer and author of Artists in String and other books, daughter of A.C. Haddon. Expert in string figures. Wife of OHT Rishbeth [qv]
Mr O.H.T. Rishbeth – From South Australia, studied classics at Merton College, Oxford, taught geography at Aberystwyth and [Reader] Southampton
Guy Colborn Robson – (1888-1945) Obtained a classical scholarship at New College Oxford from 1906, he changed to science after Mods. Worked at the OUMNH until 1911 when he moved to the British Museum (Natural History). Assistant in the Department of Zoology, studying mollusca. According to records he was one of two people (the other was Marett) who proposed starting the society, Robson wanted to do so to encourage fieldwork in Oxfordshire. Suffered shellshock during his service in the war from which he never recovered [Nature 156, 75-75 (21 July 1945)]
Miss Robson – Nothing known (possibly a relative of the above)
Michael Ivanovich Rostovtzeff (1870-1952) Professor at Yale from 1925-1944 Expert on Hellenistic and Roman History and history of South Russia and Ukraine. He left Russia in 1918 and spent two years in Oxford before moving to the USA. See here and here and here
Nina Margaret Ruffer – Diploma Student – See here
Isabel Marjorie Russell – Diploma Student – See here
Mr E.A. Seaton – Nothing known
Mrs E.A. Seaton – Nothing known
Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller (1864-1937) Philosopher, Tutorial Fellow at Corpus Christi College from 1897 to 1926, professor at University of southern California from 1929. [I assume this is the right person though he got his professorship outside Oxford, and late, and doesn’t appear to have a doctorate – he is referred to as Dr or Professor Schiller in records]
Mr B.G. Segar – Nothing known
Brenda Zara Seligman (1882-1965) Wife of CG Seligman [qv] Anthropologist
Charles Gabriel Seligman (1873-1940) Lecturer in Ethnology, LSE
Mr Sherwood – Nothing known
Miss Marjorie Sherwyn – Nothing known
Mrs Derwent Simmonds – she gave several objects to the Pitt Rivers Museum in 1936 from Jamaica, nothing further known.
Marcus Simmons – Nothing known
Miss C.A. Simpson – Nothing known
Mr Owen Slater – Nothing known
John Alexander Smith - (1863-1939) Philosopher and classical scholar see here. Jowett Lecturer in philosophy from 1896 and Waynflete professor of moral and metaphysical philosophy from 1910.
George Nuttall Nuttall-Smith (1866-1952) Clergyman and author.
Percy Spencer Spokes (1893-1976) worked for the National Buildings Record during the Second World War making a photographic record of properties. He went on to list buildings of architectural and historic merit in Oxford for the Ministry of Town and Country Planning. He later became a member of the extra staff at the Bodleian Library, where he remained for the rest of his life. From 1951 to 1973 Spokes worked as an Oxford City Councillor, holding the offices of Sheriff, Lord Mayor and Alderman and serving on various committees. Further details can be found in Ann Spokes Symonds, The Life of Peter Spencer Spokes (Oxford: Ann Spokes Symonds, 1996). [Bodleian papers] He obviously studied at Oxford.
Janet Spens – (1876-1963) First woman to be awarded a DLitt by Glasgow University (in 1910). IN 1911 she was appointed tutor in English Literature at Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford, she stayed 25 years retiring in 1936.
Mr A. Stacpole – Nothing known
Mr Stampe – Nothing known
John George Stevenson – Diploma Student – See here
Margaret Stevenson – Diploma Student – See here
Robert de Jersey Fleming-Struthers – Diploma Student – See here
Miss Stratton – Nothing known
Mrs Stuart – Nothing known
Miss Stubbs – Nothing known
Dragutin Subotic – Diploma Student – See here
Lt. W. Tatham – Nothing known
Miss Templer – Nothing known
Arthur Thomson – See here
Gladys Scott Thomson – FRHS, Author
Mr H.M. Tin – Nothing known
Mr A. Tingly – Nothing known
Miss Tout – Nothing known
Mr R.B. Townsend [possibly Richard Baxter Townshend (1846-1923) inspiration of Elgar’s Enigma Variations
Hon. R. Trefusis – Nothing known
Edward Burnett Tylor – See here
Miss Vaughan – There is a Miss Dorothy M. Vaughan of Warnborough Road, Oxford who donated objects in 1957 who may be the same person
Mr H.B. Veajic – Nothing known
Thomas Humfrey Vines – Diploma Student – See here
Mr Vintner – Nothing known
Mr C.H. Ward [see below same person?] – Nothing known
Charles Sanford Ward – Diploma Student – See here
Mr Webster – Nothing known
Margaret Agnes Westlake – Diploma Student – See here
Lady Westland [assoc.] –donated objects through Francis Llewellyn Griffiths in 1925 lived on Woodstock Road
Waiter Grainge White (1878-?) Missionary, he was made member of the OUAS after he spoke in 1918.
Francis Edgar Williams – Diploma Student – See here
Paul Dominic Wilmot – Diploma Student – See here
John Cook Wilson – (1849-1915) Wykeham Professor of Logic and Fellow of New College, Oxford from 1889 until 1915. Philosopher. See here
Mr J.O. Wilson – Nothing known
Mr Woodward – Nothing known
Mrs Woodward – Nothing known, but presumably wife of the above
Miss Wright – Nothing known
Miss Young – Nothing known
Probable members before 1920, but not mentioned in minute books or meeting accounts
Violet Alford – (1881-1972) Ethnologist and folklorist see here
Miss Bailey – Nothing known
William Warde Fowler – (1847-1921) Historian and ornithologist see here. Tutor at Oriel and Lincoln Colleges retiring in 1910 to Kingham.
Colonel Frey – Nothing known
Bruce Morton Goldie – (1869-1959) MA Christ Church, schoolmaster at St Edwards School, Oxford from 1915 to 1925.
Mr F.A. Hampton – Nothing known
Dr James – Nothing known
Rev C.A. James – Nothing known Note wife is known to have been member
Francis Howe Seymour Knowles – Diploma Student – See here and see here
Edwin Ray Lankester – See here
Violet Mason – Nothing known except she gave a paper on Oxfordshire folklore Society in 1934
Mr P.A. Methven [Methuen?] – Nothing known
Mr Mullins – Nothing known
Harold John Edward Peake – (1867-1946) Archaeologist, honorary curator of Newbury Museum. See here
Arthur E. Peake – (1871?-?) possibly younger brother of Harold Peake [see above], surgeon who lived at Peppard Common, Henley.
Thomas Kenneth Penniman – See here
John Rhys (1840-1915) Celtic scholar, from 1877 he was first Jesus professor of Celtic, principal of Jesus College from 1895. See here
Possibly Frederick John Richards – Diploma Student – See here
Robert Walter Campbell Shelford – (1872-1912) Assistant Curator of Hope Dept of Zoology, OUMNH from 1905
Melville William Hilton Simpson – Diploma Student – See here and see here
Charles Joseph Singer – (1876-1960) Historian of medicine and science. Student of pathology at Oxford from 1914, served as pathologist with RAMC during war, returned as lecturer in history of biological sciences. See here
Jessie Payne Smith – (1856-1933) Syriac scholar see here
William Johnson Sollas – (1849-1936) Geologist and anthropologist. From 1897 Professor of Geology at Oxford see here
AP September 2012.
