This is a table showing all the known Diploma students who studied between 1907 and 1920. Note that the names were taken from the Register of the Diploma Students held by the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology. This table was first prepared by Chris Wingfield during the ESRC funded Relational Museum project, and has had additional biographical information (and some corrections to names) added by Alison Petch during September 2012 and further updated in November 1915. If you have any more information about these students please send it to us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Please note that in the table below Michaelmas Term has been abbreviated to MT, Hilary Term to HT and Trinity Term to TT. See here for a glossary of University of Oxford student related terms.
Name | College | Start date | Qualifications | Biographical notes & subsequent career | Award | Donor to Pitt Rivers Museum? |
Barbara Whitchurch Freire-Marreco | Lady Margaret Hall then Somerville College | MT 1907 | Hons. Mods (1st Class) HT | Later Aitken. 1879-1967. See here | Diploma with distinction TT 1908 | Yes |
Francis Howe Seymour Knowles (Sir) | Oriel, as Commoner | MT 1907 | Completed BA course 1904-1907 (3rd) | 1886-1953. See here | Not known | Yes |
James Arthur Harley | Jesus | MT 1907 | LL.B. 1902, BA 1906, Harvard University. Admitted B. Litt. Student in Theology, Oxford, October 1907 | 1873-1943 or after 1950. 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. | 1883-1968 or 1969. See here. Rhodes Scholar | Diploma TT 1910 | No |
Wilson Dallam Wallis | Wadham | 1908 | BA with distinction in Philosophy, Psychology, Law from Dickinson College, Maryland, USA | 1886-1970. Rhodes Scholar. The title of his BSc. 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 | MA (1st), University of New Zealand | 1886-1969. Chief Anthropological Division, Canadian National Museum, Ottawa. Numerous works on Inuit. Fieldwork in New Guinea, & among Inuit. 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. Leaving Certificate, Scottish Education Dept. 2. Government certificates for proficiency in Nyanja and Hausa languages. 3. His book Chi-Nyanja Tales. BSc. DSc. |
1881-1938. Assistant Commissioner and District Commissioner, Gold Coast. 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 | None. Collection. | MT 1909 | Not known | 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, 14 August 1911, p. 9 | Not known | No |
Oscar Ferris Watkins | All Souls | 1910 |
MA. |
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. Assistant District Commissioner, British East Africa. | Diploma with distinction 1913 | Yes |
Paul Dominic Wilmot | Lincoln | MT 1910 | Oxford Sen. Latin + Greek (in March) = Responsions. | ?-1918. Rhodes Scholar. On St. George's College War Memorial, Harare, Zimbabwe. ref. South African Roll of Honour 1914-1918, see here. 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 | Possibly 1884-1971. 1908 Rhodes Scholar. Director Welfare Department, 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. Wrote 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, as Commoner | MT 1910 | BA (2nd) History | Dates and biography unknown | Diploma TT 1911 | No |
Dorothea Adelaide Lawry Pugh[e] Jones | Somerville | MT 1910 | BA (2nd Class Hons. History, 1900 | 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, USA | Dates and biography unknown | Certificate Cultural Anthropology (Social). TT 1911 | No |
Martha Fleming | Not known | HT 1911 | Not known | ?-1925. Assistant Professor of Education, University of Chicago, USA. | Not known | No |
Edward Kirkby | Not a member of University, at Ruskin College | HT 1911 | Specially recommended as of industry and ability | Dates unknown. Failed in Certification. Examination Cultural Anthropology (Social) TT 1911 | Not known | No |
Albert Guy Pawson | Christ Church | HT 1911 | BA (2nd) 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 | MA (3rd) Lit. Hum. | Dates unknown. 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, as Open Class Scholar) | HT 1911 | BA Hon. Class. Mods. (3rd) | 1889-1939. See here | Certificate Cultural Anthropology. (Social) TT 1911. Diploma with Distinction | Yes |
Melville William Hilton-Simpson | Exeter, as Commoner | MT 1911 | Responsions etc. Also for his exploration in Africa | 1881-1938. Between 1903 and 1906 he travelled in the 'Barbary States' and the Sahara, and accompanied Emil Torday on his expedition to the Kasai Basin in then Belgian Congo to collect ethnographic objects for the British Museum. In November 1913 he was 'granted status of research-student carrying out scientific work under the auspices of the Committee for Anthropology'. From 1912 with his wife he carried out prolonged fieldwork among the Berber in southern Algeria. He served in the British Army in the first world war retiring with the rank of captain. [Taken from his Who was Who entry and the Diploma register] | Not known | Yes |
Mary Czaplicka also known as Marie Antoinette or Marya Antonina | Somerville | MT 1911 | Teacher's Certificate for geography, Librarian; Secretary of Geographical Section Warsaw | 1884-1921. 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 | BA (2nd) History (1895) | 1866-1935. Author of 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 | BA | 1886-1957. See here. Ordinance Survey, Southampton, Archaeology Officer. Wellcome Expedition to Sudan. Author of The Andover District, Essex from the Air | Diploma TT 1912 | Yes |
Charles William Berry Littlejohn | New | MT 1911 | BA (1st), 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 | BSc Melbourne, BSc Oxford 1912 | 1886-1959. Rhodes Scholar. See here | Diploma with Distinction TT 1912 | Yes |
Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe | Jesus | HT 1912 | Hon. MA, University | 1865-1937. Archaeologist. Lecturer in Tamil & Telgu, Ceylon. See here | Not known | No |
Vasile George Ispir | Not known | 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 here | Certificate in Social Anthropology, 1913. Diploma with distinction June 1914 | No |
Mary Poyntz | Oxford Home Students | HT 1912 | Research Scholar, Columbia University, USA | [Entered for, but did not take, examination TT 1912] Dates and biography unknown | Not known | No |
Leonard Fielding Nalder | Corpus Christi | HT 1912 | BA (2nd), History 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 | BA (2nd) Lit. Hum. 1911 | 1888-1970. 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 | Responsions. L Pass Mods. | 1889 or 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 | BA (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 | c1888-1912, died during the Long Vacation. | Not known | Yes |
Hannah Byrne | Somerville | MT 1912 | BA (1st). Geology. 1909 | Dates unknown. Gazetteer of Native Tribes of Australia (not published) | Diploma with Distinction 1913 | No |
Winifred Susan Blackman | Not known | MT 1912 | Recommended as industrious and intelligent student by Dr Seligman | 1872-1950. 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 | BA (1st) | 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 | MA | 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 | BA 1909 | 1887-1969. After graduating he served in the first 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 | BA | Dates and biography unknown | Not known | No |
Horace Bidwell English | Pembroke, as 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 | BA (3rd). Lit. Hum. | 1889-1971. 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 | BA | Dates and biography unknown. Exhibitioner at Magdalen 1909-1913. | Certificate in Social Anthropology, 1913 | No |
Robert Vickers Bardsley | Merton | HT 1913 | BA | 1890-1952. Sudan Probationer. Entered but did not take examination, 1913. 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 | BA | 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 | BA | 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. Served in the Royal Field Artillery during the first world war | Not known | No |
George Colby Hawkins Borley | Balliol | HT 1913 | Not known | 1891 or 1893-?after 1939. Educated University College, Reading. Awarded Stanhope History Essay 1912. | Not known | No |
Samuel George Hans Bürger | New | HT 1913 | Not known | Dates and biography unknown. Possibly 1891-1959, born Old Trafford, Manchester. | 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 | BA | 1887-1977. Educated 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 Director of Stead McAlpine & Co, in Carlisle. JP for Carlisle and Commissioner of Income Tax. [Thanks to John Jenkis for this information] | Not known | No |
Edgar Stanley Pembleton | Christ Church | 1913 | BA | 1888-? Entered but did not take examination, 1913. Served in Colonial Administrative Service, Nigeria | Not known | Yes |
Edward Elvell Potter | Christ Church | 1913 | BA | Dates unknown. Assistant District Commissioner, West Africa. | Not known | No |
Edwin Cross | Not known | 1913 | Not known | Dates unknown. Treasury Dept., Southern Nigeria. | Not known | No |
Mura Frances Bayly | Oxford Home Students | 1913 | Leaving certificate, Scottish Education Department, recommended by Cornell University as intelligent student who has done field work in the Pacific | Dates unknown. Member of American Geographical Society. Worked in New Zealand. Born in South Africa and educated in England, France, Germany, and Austria. In the 1910s Bayly traveled throughout Indonesia and the Pacific islands. She became well known in New York as a lecturer on Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand, and the Pacific islands, and in 1911 she was elected as a fellow of the American Geographical Society. Bayly published stories of her travels in American, European, and other periodicals, and she designed her own silk clothing. During her travels she focused on clothing design and the acquisition of textiles. See here | Diploma 1914 | No |
Frederick John Richards | Exeter | TT 1913 | MA | Dates unknown. 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. Later appointed Honorary Lecturer in Indian archaeology at University College, London (Allchin 1957: 322). | Not known | Yes |
Paul Shuffrey | Lincoln | TT 1913 | BA | 1889-1955. Assistant District Commissioner, Sierra Leone. Editor and publisher | Not known | No |
harles Kingsley Meek | Brasenose | 1913, rejoined course in TT 1920 after war | BA | 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 lectureship 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 | Not known | MT 1913 | Responsions: seeking appointment in West Africa | 1890- ?. biography unknown | Not known | No |
Joseph William Horne | Magdalen | MT 1913 | BA | Dates and biography unknown. Seeking appointment in West Africa | Not known | No |
Arthur Edward Sanders | Exeter | MT 1913 | Qualified for BA degree | ?-1916, died whilst on active service, biography unknown. See here | Not known | No |
Oliver Cromwell Carmichael | Wadham | MT 1913 | Rhodes Scholar. Responsions. MA 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 | BA and Fellow, University of California, USA | 1891-1957. American. Served in both world wars in the American navy. Passed by Committee of Anthropology 17 October 1913. US Relief Commissioner in Europe. International Red Cross in Paris. See here | Diploma with Distinction. June 1914 | Yes |
Richard Harvey Simpson | Brasenose | MT 1913 | BA Indiana and MA Harvard University, USA | 1913 Rhodes Scholar. American. 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 | 1893-1962. Served in the Indian Army, Army Equipment Branch | 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 | 1890-?. Born Edinburgh see here. Sudan Probationer. 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 1933 Governor, White Nile Province, Sudan. 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 | MA (Malay States) | 1876-1947. Colonial Secretary, Jamaica, Malaysia and Singapore. See here | Not known | No |
Clement A. Miles | Exeter | MT 1913 | Not known | Dates and biography unknown. Probably author of Christmas in Ritual and Tradition (1923) | Not known | No |
Percy Otto St Clair Wilbraham Perryman | Balliol | MT 1913 | BA Status | 1885 or 1886-1932. Assistant Commissioner Uganda Protectorate from 1908. | 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. | 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 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. | Not known | No |
Humphrey John Thewks Johnson | Christ Church | HT 1914 | Matriculated 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 '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 | MA | c1875-1942. 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). See here | Not known | No |
Harry William Thomas Armstrong | Jesus | 1914 | 2nd class Hons. Mods. | ?1892-1915. Served in the East Surrey Regiment died July 1915 on active service | Not known | No |
Charles Sanford Ward | Christ Church | 1914 | Responsions | 1893-1916. 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 | BA | 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 | BA | 1882-1956. Indian Civil Service. 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, BA (2nd), History, Law | Dates and biography unknown | Not known | No |
William Hubbs Mechling | Not known | MT 1914 | MA Harvard University, BS MA University of Pennsylvania | 1888-1953. Anthropologist and archaeologist. Worked at Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Received his doctorate from Harvard in 1917 | Diploma, June 1916 | Yes |
Walter Carl Barnes | Lincoln | MT 1914 | Pass Mods A & B | American Rhodes Scholar from 1913. Dates and biography unknown | Not known | No |
Edwin Oliver James (Reverend) | Exeter | MT 1914 | Priest's Orders (with Preliminary 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 | MA. (allowed for anthropological work done at Harvard University) | Possibly 1864-1922. Also educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and Harvard. Headmaster in Sind, See here | 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 BA (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 did not join course) | TT 1915 | MA, 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) | Not known | MT 1915 | BA 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 Responsions | 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 | BA | 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), BSc. Durham 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. | 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 | 1889-1975. 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 | MA, BSc. | 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. Joined Cavalry in 1913 | 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 | 1890-1980. 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 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 | BA | 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 | Responsions 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, MA of Durham | Dates unknown. Clergyman and author | Not known | No |
Nina Margaret Ruffer | Somerville | TT 1918 | Responsions French ?group | 1897-1919. Died of Influenza August 1919 | Not known | Yes |
Rachel Spenser Tidderman | Oxford Home Students | MT 1918 | Higher Cert. (French). Cambridge Senior | c 1897-?. Born 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 | ?1897-1982. Company director, Yorkshire | Certificate in Cultural (Social) Anthropology, 1919 | No |
Louis Colville Gray Clarke | Exeter | HT 1919 | BA, Cambridge | (1881-1960). Educated privately and went up to Trinity Hall, Cambridge to read the history tripos, graduating in 1903. His wealthy family ensured that he could travel widely in Europe, Central and South America and Ethiopia whilst he was an undergraduate. He served during the first World War. He matriculated in the Diploma in Anthropology in 1919 at Exeter College. He also served as a volunteer in the Museum. In 1922 he was appointed Curator at the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. In 1937 he was appointed as Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. He retired in 1946 but remained the honorary curator of prints. He had amassed a large art collection which he donated to the University of Cambridge. | 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 | BA | 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 | BA, 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. In Royal Garrison Artillery in 1914 (Essex and Suffolk) | 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, US 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, US 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 | MA, Oxon. And B.D. London | 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 | BA (1st), 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 Responsions | 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 | MA | 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. Possibly 1899-1957. Joined staff of Gordon College in 1920. Assistant Director of Education 1937-1944 and Director 1944-1949. Sudan Political Service. See here | Not known | No |
Ian Meredith Bruce-Gardyne | Balliol | MT 1919 | BA | 1895-1964. Sudan Probationer. Soldier and Sudan Political Officer, see here. | Not known | No |
Brian Kennedy Cook | Worcester | MT 1919 | Not known | 1894-1945. Sudan Probationer. 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 | MT 1919 | BA | 1894-1965. Sudan Probationer. 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 | 1894-1945 Sudan Probationer. 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 | MA Christ's College, Cambridge; B.Litt., Oxford. | It is probable that this is 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 | BSc. London | Dates and biography unknown | Certificate in Cultural Anthropology (Social Anthropology with Distinction, TT 1920) | No |
Brahmadeo Prasad Jamnar | Jesus | HT 1920 | Responsions with added subject. | 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 (?Selwyn) 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 | Responsions Mods. Military Service | According to here he served in the British Mission Portuguese Corps (British Army) during the first world war. Dates and other biography unknown but probably this person: … 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. ...’ [Note that website from which information was obtained has now disappeared] | Not known | No |
Mary Angela Mond | Lady Margaret Hall | HT 1920 | Responsions | 1901-1937. Full name Mary Angela Willoughby Mond (later Hordern). 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. See here | 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 Massachusetts, USA. He rowed for Oxford in the 1921 Boat Race. See here for a biography of his brother (Samuel, a Latin American archaeologist). | Diploma in anthropology, June 1921. | No |
Ruth Wedgwood Doggett | Lady Margaret Hall | MT 1920 | BA, Harvard USA | 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, USA | Janet Blair Montgomery McGovern 1879-1938. Mother of William Montgomery McGovern and wife of Felix Daniel McGovern, an army officer. They travelled a great deal. Author of two books. See here | Diploma in Anthropology, June 1921 | Yes |
Isabel Marjorie Russell | Oxford Home Students | MT 1920 | War service plus good school report. Admitted by Committee, October 1920 | ?1896-1978 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 Responsions. | Dates and biography unknown. Served with Royal Innis Fusiliers and Royal Garrison Artillery during first world war. He is possibly the Edward Loughrey mentioned here. | Not known | No |
Alice Margaret Stevenson | Somerville | MT 1920 | MA Oxon. MA D.Sc. Dublin | 1875-1957. Author of several books including four about India. Alice Margaret Sinclair Stevenson MA Oxon SED Dublin buried at Dean's Grange Cemetery, Co. Dublin. Wife? of Reverend John Sinclair Stevenson (Irish Presbyterian Mission to Western India). See here | Not known | No |