Herbert John Fleure
Professor H. J. Fleure, D.Sc., Ll.D., M.A., F.S.A., F.R.S. 1877-1969 Professor Fleure died at his home in Surrey at the advanced age of 92 on 1 July 1969. He was […]
Daryll Forde
Professor Daryll Forde, FBA Professor Daryll Forde, who died on 3 May 1973, at the age of seventy-one, was President of the Institute from 1947-49. His death is a tragic […]
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Sir Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard: 1902-1973 With the death of Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard in September last, in his seventy-third year, social anthropology lost its most distinguished practitioner of this century. The […]
John Fraser Roberts
Dr John Fraser Roberts, CBE, MD, FRS, President of the RAI 1957-59, died on 15 January at the age of 87. He was Director of the Medical Research Council’s Clinical […]
Glyn Daniel
Glyn Daniel, RAI President 1977-79, died in Cambridge on 13 December at the age of 72. He was Disney Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge from 1974 to 1981 and was […]
John Davis
John (Horsley Russell) Davis, 1938 – 2017 John Davis died on 15 January 2017. John was on the anthropology staff of the University of Kent from 1966 to 1990, his […]
Ernest Gellner
ERNEST GELLNER: 1925-1995 Ernest Andre Gellner was born in Paris on 9th December 1925, the son of a Jewish lawyer from Czechoslovakia. The family lived in Prague until the German […]
Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf
Professor Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf 1909-1995 Professor Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, who died on 11 June 1995 at the age of 85, was Professor of Asian Anthropology at the School of Oriental […]
Joseph S. Weiner
JOSEPH S. WEINER The death of Joe Weiner (President of the Institute, 1963-64, and Huxley Memorial Medallist for 1978) on 13 June 1982 was a great loss for physical anthropology […]
Edwin Williams Smith
Edwin Williams Smith: 1876-1957. Edwin Williams Smith, who died in December, 1957, at the age of 81, was elected to the Council of the Royal Anthropological Institute in 1927 and […]
