| Authorised form of name | Tylor; Sir; Edward Burnet (1832 - 1917) |
| Surname | Tylor |
| Forenames | Edward Burnet |
| Dates | 1832 - 1917 |
| Nationality | British |
| Dates and places | Birth:
Camberwell, London, England (02 October 1832)
Death:
Wellington, Somerset (02 January 1917) |
| Activity | Research Field:
Anthropology, archaeology
Education:
DCL (1875, Oxford)
Career:
Worked in his father's foundry; gave up due to ill health; went to Mexico to study its anthropology and archaeology; published 'Primitive man' (1871); Keeper of the University Museum, Oxford (1883); Reader in Anthropology (1884), then Professor of Anthropology, Oxford University (1896-1909); retired
Honours:
Kt 1912 |
| Royal Society activity | Membership:
Fellow
Council:
December 1899 to October 1900, when he retired
Member of Committee formed to consider the formation of a new Academy on 18 January 1900
Election Date:
8/06/1871 |
| Relationships | Son Joseph Tylor, brassfounder, and his wife Harriet Skipper, both Quakers; married (1858) Anna, daughter of Sylvanus Fox of Wellington, Somerset |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB |
| Royal Society code | NA2273 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1871/12 | Tylor, Sir Edward Burnet: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/Maull/004688 | Tylor, Sir Edward Burnet | nd |
| IM/Maull/004687 | Tylor, Sir Edward Burnet | 1893 |
| NLB/5/60 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Edward Burnett Tylor, Fellow of the Royal Society | 4 March 1891 |
| NLB/14/635 | Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to [George Howard] Darwin, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 12 April 1897 |
| NLB/20/778 | Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Professor Edward Burnet Tylor, Fellow of the Royal Society | 7 July 1900 |
| NLB/54/107 | Copy letter from Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to Mrs Tylor, [Wife of Sir Edward Burnet Tylor, FRS] | 6 February 1917 |
| NLB/33/763 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Edward Burnet Tylor, Fellow of the Royal Society | 31 October 1906 |
| NLB/45/259 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison [signed by Theodore E James] to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 26 January 1912 |
| NLB/45/218 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir Edward Tylor FRS | 22 January 1912 |
| NLB/54/90 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur [John] Evans, FRS | 5 February 1917 |
| RR/13/225 | Referee's report by Edward Burnett Tylor, on a paper 'A Maya calendar inscription, interpreted by Goodman's tables' by Alfred Percival Maudslay | 25 May 1897 |
| RR/10/345 | Referee's report by Edward Burnett Tylor, on a paper 'The patterns in thumb and finger Marks.—On their arrangement into naturally distinct classes, the permance of the papillary ridges that makes them, and the resemblance of their classes to ordinary genera' by Francis Galton | 26 November 1890 |