Person Haddon; Alfred Cort (1855 - 1940); anthropologist and ethnologist Haddon Alfred Cort anthropologist and ethnologist 1855 - 1940 British Male London, England, United Kingdom 24 May 1855 18550524 3 Cranmer Road, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom 20/04/1940 19400420 Cremation: Cambridge

Zoologist; Anthropologist Anthropology Education: 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 Parents: 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. Pioneer of modern anthropology. Darwin fund of the Royal Society (1888-1889) Fellow 01/06/1899 44 William 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 Sources: 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 Haddon A C, IM Maull 001820.jpg International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.1941.0014 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/action/doSearch?ContribRaw=Haddon%2C+Alfred+Cort RCN 13228 RCN 14472 24 May 1855 - 20 Apr 1940 The past Fellows entries are under continuous revision. If you have queries or additional information to contribute, please contact Library@royalsociety.org. Content in external sources is not controlled by the Royal Society and historical sources may include content that is now unacceptable. Reviewed on 24/04/2024 as part of the Name Authority Project update. NA6614 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 17/03/2026 RS_NET\VirginiaM Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/17301055 113de1cd-cc30-4650-bd02-bb30c816a5cf