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Authorised form of nameBalfour; Henry (1863 - 1939)
Dates1863 - 1939
Date of birth11 April 1863
Date of death09/02/1939
ActivityEducation:
MA (Oxon)
Career:
Ex-Research Fellow, Exeter College, Oxford; Curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford; ex-President Roy Anthrop Inst (1903-1904), of Section H, British Association (1904), of Museums Association (1909); President Folk Lore Society (1922); Huxley Lecturer, Royal Anthropological Institute (1921)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election15/05/1924
SourcesObituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1939-1941 vol 3 pp 109-115, plate, by A C Haddon
Royal Society codeNA1419
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1924/01Balfour, Henry: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/13/446Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Henry Balfour, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford10 September 1896
NLB/37/453Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Henry Balfour24 March 1908
NLB/37/832Copy Letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Henry Balfour, Langley Lodge, Headingon Hill, Oxford21 May 1908
NLB/37/700Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to C [Charles] V [Vernon] Boys, Fellow of the Royal Society4 May 1908
NLB/56/338Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Henry Balfour Esquire, FRS15 January 1919
MC/23/26Letter from Henry Balfour, Langley Lodge, Headington Hill, Oxford, to [Robert] Harrison, [The Royal Society]19 May 1908
MC/23Volume 23 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1908
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