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- William Scoresby Routledge
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William Scoresby Routledge
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primary name: Routledge, W Scoresby
- Details
- individual; collector; archaeologist; British; Male
- Life dates
- 1859-31 July 1939
- Biography
- Traveller, amateur archaeologist, ethnologist, collector. b.Australia to English parents; returned to England 1867. Educated Oxford, UCH in medicine, but never practised as a doctor. Turned anthropologist and explored many parts of the newly explored world; never had an official position.
Studied the Kikuyu in Kenya in 1902, and again after marrying Katherine Routledge (q.v) in 1906. In Kenya recorded as a friend of S L Hinde. For his first gift to the BM of Kikuyu material to the British Museum, see Af1904,0613.1 to 38. For a second gift in 1909 see Af1909,0305.1 to 15; Af1910,0305.1 to 13; and Af1910,0604.1 to 103 (the year of publication of his and his wife's book). Other material went to the Pitt-Rivers Museum.
Later co-leader of the Mana expedition to Easter Island in 1914-15, which led to a gift of material from Rapa Nui in 1920.
- Bibliography
- (wrote with his wife) 'With a prehistoric people' (London 1910) being an account of the Kikuyu in Kenya.
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Wikipedia
europeansineastafrica.co.uk
J. Van Tilburg, 'Among Stone Giants: the Life of Katherine Routledge and her Remarkable Expedition to Easter Island', New York: Scribner, 2003.