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Authorised form of name	Frazer; Sir; James George (1854 - 1941)
Dates	1854 - 1941
Nationality	British
Place of birth	Glasgow, Scotland
Date of birth	01 January 1854
Place of death	Cambridge
Date of death	07/05/1941
Dates and places	Burial: St Giles' cemetery, now Ascension Cemetery, Cambridge
Occupation	Anthropologist
Research field	Anthropology
Activity	Career: Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge (1879-1941); Chair of Social Anthropology at University of Liverpool (1907); original Fellow of the British Academy; Associate Member of the Institute of France; Commander of the Legion d'honneur; Honours: Kt 1914; OM 1924
Membership category	Statute 12
Date of election	24/06/1920
Relationships	Married Mrs Lily Grove, a lady of French birth in 1896
Published works	'The Growth of Plato's Ideal Theory' , 1879 essay in connection with his election to a Fellowship at Trinity College; 'The Golden Bough' 1890
Sources	Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DSB Obituaries: Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1939-1941 vol 3 pp 897-914, plate, by H J Fleure
Virtual International Authority File	http://viaf.org/viaf/31996454
Royal Society code	NA695

Archives associated with this Fellow

Reference number	Title	Date
MS/928/6/3/4	Letter from James George Frazer, Trinity College, Cambridge, to Andrew Russell Forsyth	c.1914
NLB/59/216	Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir James [George] Frazer, FRS	27 July 1920
NLB/59/282	Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir James [George] Frazer, FRS	27 August 1920
NLB/57/285	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Bate Hardy, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society	7 October 1919
NLB/59/643	Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir James [George] Frazer, FRS	28 October 1920
NLB/62/484	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir James [George] Frazer, FRS	21 February 1922
NLB/62/448	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir James [George] Frazer, FRS	16 February 1922
NLB/62/326	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir James [George] Frazer, FRS	25 January 1922
NLB/62/587	Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir James [George] Frazer, FRS	17 March 1922
NLB/66/235	Copy letter from [William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Sir James Frazer, FRS	24 March 1924
CD/54/4	Letter from [James George] Frazer, No.1 Brick Court, Temple, London, to William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society	18 March 1922
CD/52/43	Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, to Sir James Frazer	27 August 1920
CD/52/22	Letter from James [George] Frazer, to Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society	13 April 1920
CD/52/61	Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, to Sir James Frazer	28 October 1920
NLB/73/229	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir James [George] Frazer, O. M., FRS	17 March 1931
CD/54/3	Letter from [James George] Frazer, No.1 Brick Court, Temple, London, to William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society	17 March 1922
CD/52/38	Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, to Sir James Frazer	27 July 1920
CD/51/2	Letter from [James George] Frazer, 1 Brick Court, Temple, London, E.C.4., to William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society	9 January 1919
CD/52/46	Letter from [James George] Frazer, to Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society	27 August 1920
CD/51/1	Letter from [James George] Frazer, 1 Brick Court, Temple, London, E.C.4., to William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society	5 January 1919
CD/51/42	Letter from [James George] Frazer, 1 Brick Court, Temple, London, E.C.4., to William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society	September 1919
CD/51/47	Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society, to Sir James Frazer	25 September 1919
CD/52/57	Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, to Sir James Frazer	12 October 1920
CD/52/39	Letter from [James George] Frazer, to the Royal Society	23 July 1920
CD/52/44	Letter from [James George] Frazer, to the Royal Society	28 July 1920
EC/1920/17	Frazer, Sir James George: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/56/338	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Henry Balfour Esquire, FRS	15 January 1919
CD/51/52	Draft letter from [Sir James George Frazer], to Lord Milner, Colonial Office	7 October 1919
CD/51/55	Letter from [James George] Frazer, 1 Brick Court, Temple, London, E.C.4., to Arthur Keith	20 October 1919
CD/51/43	Letter from John Roscoe, Mackie Ethnological Expedition to Central Africa, Metropole Hotel, Mombasa, to [James George] Frazer	11 August 1919
NLB/56/341	Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Right Honourable Lord Milner	16 January 1919
NLB/59	New Letter Book volume 59, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration	9 July 1920-2 December 1920

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