| Authorised form of name | Moir; James Reid (1879 - 1944); archaeologist |
| Dates | 1879 - 1944 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | The Elms, Benslow, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England |
| Date of birth | 13 June 1879 |
| Place of death | Mill House, Flatford, East Bergholt, Suffolk, England |
| Date of death | 24/02/1944 |
| Occupation | archaeologist |
| Research field | Archaeology |
| Activity | Education:
Northgate School, Ipswich.
Career:
Left education for an apprenticeship with his father’s outfitters’ business in Buter Market, Ipswich (1895); made a name for himself by writing to the The Times claiming to have found irrefutable human artefacts beneath the East Anglian crag deposits, challenging the orthodox view of the antiquity of human beings, an event which brought him support and friendship of Sir Ewin Ray Lankester (FRS 1875) (1910); neglected the family business in pursuit of archaeological research; published extensively; delivered the Huxley memorial lecture at Imperial College, London (1939); died of heart failure and coronary thrombosis (1944).
Memberships:
Prehistoric Society of East Anglia (President 1914–15; 1932–3)
Ipswich Museum (President 1929) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 06/05/1937 |
| Age at election | 58 |
| Proposer | Arthur Keith; Arthur Smith Woodward; Henry Balfour; Charles Scott Sherrington; Percy George Hamnall Boswell; George Clarke Simpson; Charles Gabriel Seligman; Alfred Cort Haddon; Herbert John Fleure; Owen Thomas Jones; Edward Bagnall Poulton |
| Relationships | Parents: Lewis Moir (1843–1912), a tailor, and Sarah, née Knowles (1841–1910).
Spouse: Mary Frances Moberly, daughter of Robert George Penny, Anglican clergyman (3 March 1909). |
| Published works | RCN 55766
RCN 8867
RCN 55763
RCN 55764
RCN R72408 |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1942-1944 vol 4 pp 733-745, plate, by Arthur Keith |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/69303079 |
| Royal Society code | NA686 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1937/13 | Moir, James Reid: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/003130 | Moir, James Reid | nd |
| NLB/60/836 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [James] Reid Moir Esquire, FRS | 13 April 1921 |
| NLB/56/161 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [James Reid] Moir Esquire; One House, Ipswich | 4 December 1918 |
| NLB/56/905 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [James] Reid Moir, FRS; One House, Ipswich | 24 June 1919 |
| NLB/58/201 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to James [Reid] Moir Esquire; Government Laboratory, Johannesburg | 25 March 1920 |
| NLB/59/40 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [James] Reid Moir Esquire, FRS; One House, Ipswich | 12 July 1920 |
| NLB/56/804 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [James] Reid Moir Esquire, FRS | 30 May 1919 |
| RR/24/66 | Referee's report by William Johnson Sollas, on a paper 'The transition from rostro-carinate flint implements to the tongue-shaped implements of river-terrace gravels' by James Reid Moir | 28 January 1918 |
| NLB/57 | New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration | 27 June 1919-27 February 1920 |
| RR/24/65 | Referee's report by Arthur John Evans, on a paper 'The transition from rostro-carinate flint implements to the tongue-shaped implements of river-terrace gravels' by James Reid Moir | [November 1917] |
| MM/22/52 | Letter from James Reid Moir, Hedges, One House Lane, Ipswich, to Sir Arthur Smith Woodward | 4 April 1936 |
| MM/22/53 | Letter from James Reid Moir, Hedges, One House Lane, Ipswich, to Sir Arthur Smith Woodward | 7 April 1936 |
| MM/22/54 | Letter from James Reid Moir, Hedges, One House Lane, Ipswich, to Sir Arthur Smith Woodward | 8 April 1936 |
| MM/22/55 | Letter from James Reid Moir, Hedges, One House Lane, Ipswich, to Sir Arthur Smith Woodward | 10 April 1936 |
| MM/22/56 | Letter from James Reid Moir, Hedges, One Lane House, Ipswich, to Sir Arthur Smith Woodward | 7 June 1937 |
| MC/33/121 | Letter from [James Reid] Moir, One House, Ipswich, to the Secretaries, The Royal Society | 1 December 1918 |
| MC/34/134 | Letter from [James] Reid Moir, One House, Ipswich, to The Assistant Secretary, The Royal Society, London, W | 26 June 1919 |
| MC/33/122 | Letter from [James Reid] Moir, One House, Ipswich, to the [Royal Society] | 9 December 1918 |
| MC/34/119 | Letter from [Edwin] Ray Lankester, Chinehead, Westcliff Road, Bournemouth, to The [Seretary] of the Royal Society | 5 March 1919 |
| MC/34/120 | Letter from [Edwin] Ray Lankester, Chinehead, Westcliff Road, Bournemouth, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society] | 16 March 1919 |
| NLB/56/562 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Edwin] Ray Lankester, Chairman of the Challenger Reports Committee and FRS | 13 March 1919 |
| NLB/57/18 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr J [James] Reid Moir, FRS | 2 July 1919 |