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Authorised form of nameHaddon; Alfred Cort (1855 - 1940); anthropologist and ethnologist
Dates1855 - 1940
NationalityBritish
Place of birthLondon, England
Date of birth24 May 1855
Place of death3 Cranmer Road, Cambridge, England
Date of death20/04/1940
Dates and placesCremated at Cambridge.
OccupationZoologist, pioneer of modern anthropology
Research fieldAnthropology
ActivityEducation:
City of London School (1866); Mill Hill School (1867–8); Christ's College, Cambridge (MA, ScD)
Career:
Appointed professor of zoology at the Royal College of Science, Dublin (1880); went to the Torres Strait to study the marine biology of coral reefs, funded by grants from the Royal Irish Academy and the Darwin fund of the Royal Society (1888-9); lectured in physical anthropology at Cambridge (1894–8); organised and led the famous Cambridge anthropological expedition of 1898–9 to the Torres Strait and New Guinea; upon his return from Melanesia, he made further anthropological observations for comparative purposes; university lecturer in ethnology at Cambridge (1900); elected into a fellowship at Christ's College (1901); lectured in London to supplement his income (1904-9); Deputy curator at the Horniman Museum (1902-1915); visited Torres Strait and Papua New Guinea with his daughter, thanks to a grant from the Percy Sladen Trust; undertook education and welfare pursuits with the British army in France (1917); appointed deputy curator of the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (1920); retired (1925).
Memberships:
MRIA; FZS; British Association; Royal Anthropological Institute
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election01/06/1899
Age at election44
ProposerWilliam Boyd Dawkins; Thomas George Bond Howes; John Beddoe; Thomas Rupert Jones; Hans Friedrich Gadow; Raphael Meldola; William Carmichael McIntosh
Thomas Henry Huxley; William Turner; St George Jackson Mivart; Francis Galton; William Abbott Herdman; Edward Bagnall Poulton; Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen; Alfred Newton; Alexander Macalister; Edward Burnet Tylor; Walter Holbrook Gaskell
William Henry Flower; Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Gunther; Augustus Wollaston Franks; George Johnstone Stoney; Daniel John Cunningham; Walter Noel Hartley; Thomas George Bonney; Edward Hull; Osbert Salvin
RelationshipsParents: John Haddon (1823–1904), head of John Haddon & Co, a firm of type-founders and printers with a strong Baptist tradition, and Caroline Waterman (1827–1899) of Bristol, who published books for children under the name Caroline Hadley.
Spouse: Fanny Elizabeth (1857–1937), daughter of Thomas Rose, draper, of Bedford (21 September 1881).
Children: One son and two daughters.
Published worksRCN 13228
RCN 14472
Royal Society Obituary or MemoirClick to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices)
Image

Haddon A C, IM Maull 001820.jpg

SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1939-1941 vol 3 pp 449-465, plate, by H J Fleure
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/17301055
Royal Society codeNA6614
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
IM/Maull/001820Haddon, Alfred Cortnd
IM/001821Haddon, Alfred Cortnd
NLB/7/296Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alfred Cort Haddon, Royal College of Science for Ireland, Dublin16 January 1893
NLB/6/971Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]27 September 1892
NLB/6/1019Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Cambridge Engraving Company4 October 1892
NLB/5/307Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Alfred Cort Haddon, Royal College of Science, Dublin11 May 1891
NLB/6/1038Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster7 October 1892
NLB/5/495Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alfred Cort Haddon30 June 1891
NLB/6/1204Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Cambridge Engraving Company9 November 1892
NLB/7/473Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Thomas William Bridge, Mason College, Birmingham25 February 1893
NLB/7/472Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to the Cambridge Engraving Company25 February 1893
NLB/7/633Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to The Cambridge Engraving Company25 March 1893
NLB/10/908Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr John Venn, Caius College, Cambridge4 March 1895
NLB/19/504Copy letter from A L K, to Messrs Harrison & Sons18 October 1899
NLB/16/188Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Haddon18 February 1898
NLB/15/793Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, [Fellow of the Royal Society]10 December 1897
NLB/21/198Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Alfred Cort Haddon, Fellow of the Royal Society26 September 1900
NLB/19/486Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons13 October 1899
NLB/20/494Copy telegram from the Royal Society, to Professor [Alfred Cort] Haddon, Inisfail, Hills Road, Cambridge[5 May 1900]
NLB/20/615Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Alfred Cort Haddon, Fellow of the Royal Society1 June 1900
NLB/19/860Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Abbott Herdman, Fellow of the Royal Society9 January 1900
NLB/20/456Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Alfred Cort Haddon, Fellow of the Royal Society[27 April 1900]
NLB/20/697Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Alfred Cort Haddon, Fellow of the Royal Society19 June 1900
NLB/25/524Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Alfred Cort Haddon, Fellow of the Royal Society14 November 1902
NLB/25/636Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Alfred Cort Haddon, Fellow of the Royal Society 2 December 1902
NLB/28/529Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison], to Alfred Cort Haddon, Fellow of the Royal Society24 March 1904
NLB/32/766Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Messrs Harrison & Sons]22 May 1906
NLB/66/781Copy letter from [William Bate Hardy,] Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Alfred Cort] Haddon, FRS7 July 1924
NLB/37/127Copy letter from Archibald Geikie to Professor [Alfred Cort] Haddon FRS29 January 1908
NLB/38/150Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Alfred Cort Haddon, Fellow of the Royal Society19 June 1908
NLB/39/229Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor A [Alfred] C [Cort] Haddon, Fellow of the Royal Society14 December 1908
NLB/39/445Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor A [Alfred] C [Cort] Haddon, Fellow of the Royal Society22 January 1909
NLB/43/293Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Alfred Cort Haddon, Fellow of the Royal Society6 December 1910
NLB/42/247Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr A [Alfred] C [Cort] Haddon FRS29 April 1910
NLB/44/731Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr A [alfred] C [Cort] Haddon FRS31 October 1911
NLB/43/334Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Alfred Cort Haddon, Fellow of the Royal Society12 December 1910
NLB/43/313Copy letter from Alfred Bray Kempe, to Dr Alfred Cort Haddon, Fellow of the Royal Society9 December 1910
MC/27/147Letter from [Alfred Cort] Haddon, 3 Cranmer Road, Cambridge, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]22 November 1912
NLB/47/813Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr A [Alfred] C [Cort] Haddon FRS16 April 1913
NLB/48/815Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr [Alfred Cort] Haddon, Fellow of the Royal Society17 October 1913
NLB/52/457Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor Alfred Cort Haddon, FRS13 December 1915
NLB/52/352Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Allfred Cort Haddon, FRS13 November 1915
NLB/52/350Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to [Publications of the Royal Society]12 November 1915
NLB/56/753Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Alfred Cort] Haddon, FRS19 May 1919
NLB/59/548Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Alfred Cort] Haddon, FRS; 3 Cranmer Road, Cambridge15 October 1920
RR/17/222Referee's report by Alfred Cort Haddon, on a paper 'On the cranial and facial characters of the neandertal race' by William Johnson Sollas[July 1907]
NLB/54/868Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Aubrey] Strahan, Chairman of the Geology Committee and FRS24 October 1917
NLB/67/90Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Alfred Cort] Haddon, FRS20 October 1924
NLB/60/443Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Alfred Cort] Haddon, FRS7 February 1921
NLB/58/62Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Alfred Cort] Haddon, FRS8 March 1920
NLB/65/808Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Alfred Cort] Haddon, FRS7 January 1924
NLB/58/568Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Alfred Cort] Haddon, FRS21 May 1920
NLB/58/922Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Alfred Cort] Haddon, FRS5 July 1920
NLB/59/34Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Alfred Cort] Haddon, FRS12 July 1920
RR/14/165Referee's report by Alfred Cort Haddon, on a paper 'Polytremacis and the ancestry of Helioporidae' by John Walter Gregorynd [January 1900]
RR/17/296Referee's report by Alfred Cort Haddon, on a paper 'The proportion of the sexes produced by whites and 'coloured people' in Cuba' by Walter Heape1 November 1908
RR/67/219Referee's report by H S Harrison, on a paper 'Smoking and tobacco pipes in New Guinea' by Alfred Cort Haddon23 May 1940
NLB/64/302Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Alfred Cort] Haddon, FRS9 March 1923
NLB/64/409Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Alfred Cort] Haddon, FRS9 April 1923
NLB/57/895Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor Herbert McLeod, FRS28 February 1920
NLB/64/457Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir David Orme Masson, FRS; Australian National Research Council, Royal Society's House, 5 Elizabeth Street, Sydney18 April 1923
CD/52/11Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, to Dr [Alfred Cort] Haddon8 March 1920
NLB/65/849Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Alfred Cort] Haddon, FRS18 January 1924
NLB/65/726Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Alfred Cort] Haddon, FRS13 December 1923
NLB/66/236Copy letter from [William Bate Hardy,] Secretary of the Royal Society;to Dr. [Alfred Cort] Haddon, FRS24 March 1924
NLB/67/352Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Alfred Cort] Haddon, FRS8 December 1924
NLB/68/697Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Alfred Cort] Haddon, FRS19 October 1925
NLB/57/897Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor WW [William Whitehead] Watts, FRS28 February 1920
CD/5/47Letter from [Alfred Cort] Haddon, to Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society10 April 1923
CD/52/9Letter from [Alfred Cort] Haddon, Cranmer Road, Cambridge, to Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society6 March 1920
CD/52/72Letter from John Roscoe, Orvington Rectory, Thetford, to [Alfred Cort] Haddon6 December 1920
CD/50/5Letter from [Alfred Cort] Haddon, 3 Cranmer Road, Cambridge, to William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society7 October 1917
CD/52/71Letter from [Alfred Cort] Haddon, to William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society7 December 1920
CD/58/10Letter from [Alfred Cort] Haddon, 3 Cranmer Road, Cambridge, to William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society28 October 1920
NLB/65/854Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Alfred Cort] Haddon, FRS18 January 1924
NLB/65/846Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Grafton] Elliot Smith, FRS18 January 1924
NLB/39/171Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor S [Sydney] J [John] Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Zoology Sectional Committee4 December 1908
NLB/56/338Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Henry Balfour Esquire, FRS15 January 1919
NLB/65/855Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Keith, FRS18 January 1924
NLB/35/782Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society16 July 1907
NLB/56/341Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Right Honourable Lord Milner16 January 1919
NLB/58New Letter Book volume 58, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration28 February 1920-9 July 1920
NLB/59New Letter Book volume 59, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration9 July 1920-2 December 1920
EC/1899/07Haddon, Alfred Cort: certificate of election to the Royal Society
PP/14/26Paper, 'Contribution to the anatomy of fishes. I. The air-bladder and Weberian ossicles in the Siluridae' by Thomas William Bridge and Alfred Cort Haddon1889
MC/15/181Letter from [Alfred Cort Haddon], Royal College of Science, Dublin, to [Michael] Foster8 May 1891
RR/11/122Referee's report by Walter Holbrook Gaskell, on a paper 'Contributions to the anatomy of fishes. II. The air-bladder and Weberian ossicles in the siluroid fishes' by Thomas William Bridge and Alfred Cort Haddon22 July 1892
RR/28/101Referee's report by Alfred Cort Haddon, on a paper 'The Dusuns of North Borneo' by Godfrey Hewett5 March 1923
RR/11/121Referee's report by Arthur Milnes Marshall, on a paper 'Contributions to the anatomy of fishes. II. The air-bladder and Weberian ossicles in the siluroid fishes' by Thomas William Bridge and Alfred Cort Haddon30 June 1892
RR/11/123Referee's report by Hand Friedrich Gadow, on a paper 'Contributions to the anatomy of fishes. II. The air-bladder and Weberian ossicles in the siluroid fishes' by Thomas William Bridge and Alfred Cort Haddon26 September 1892
RR/67/220Referee's report by H J Bramholsky, British Museum on a paper 'Smoking and tobacco pipes in New Guinea' by Alfred Cort Haddon18 November 1940
MC/14/297Letter from Alfred [Cort] Haddon, Royal College of Science, Dublin, to [Michael] Foster14 February 1888
PP/23/31Paper, 'Note on the production of sounds by the air-bladder of certain siluroid fishes' by Thomas William Bridge and Alfred Cort Haddon1894
MC/15/180Letter from [Alfred Cort] Haddon, Royal College of Science, Dublin, to Professor [Michael] Foster, Secretary of the Royal Society8 May 1891
MC/14Volume 14 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1885-1888
MC/17Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1897-1899
NLB/47/80Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr A [Alfred] C [Cort] Haddon FRS25 November 1912
MC/28/119Letter from [Alfred Cort] Haddon, 3 Cranmer Road, Cambridge, to The Assistant Secretary, [Royal Society]19 October 1913
MC/38Volume 38 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1924
MC/38/35Letter from [Alfred Cort] Haddon, 3 Cranmer Road, Cambridge, to [William Bate] Hardy20 June 1924
MC/39Volume 39 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1925
MC/39/47Letter from [Alfred Cort] Haddon, 3 Cranmer Road, Cambridge, to [William Bate] Hardy20 October 1925
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