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Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton

1889 – 1939

British anthropologist

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Lived 1889 – 1939 (aged 49–50). Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton was an anthropologist.

Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton (1889 – 5 March 1939), known as L. H. Dudley Buxton, was a British anthropologist.

Education and career He was educated at Radley College and at Exeter College, Oxford, and he was Reader in Physical Anthropology at the University of Oxford between 1928 and 1939. He conducted field work in Sudan, India, Malta, the United States, China and Mesopotamia, and in 1913 he excavated Lapithos in Cyprus under the direction of professor John Myres and Cyprus Museum curator Menelaos Markides. During his extensive travels he documented his work through photography; the pictures are currently in the Pitt Rivers Museum. In the 1930s he carried research in Oxford with anthropologist Beatrice Blackwood. He collected textiles that are currently in the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, the Bankfield Museum in Halifax and the British Museum. From 1914 to 1918 he served with the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders in France and in the Intelligence Corps. He died on 5 March 1939.

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Born
1889
Birth century
Died
1939
Occupation
Education
Radley College, Exeter College
Employers
University of Oxford
Awards
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
Also known as
L. H. Dudley Buxton

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Who was Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton?

British anthropologist

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Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton was born in 1889.

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Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton died in 1939.

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Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton was an anthropologist.

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· Wikipedia: Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton

· Wikidata: Q96217308

· DBpedia: L. H. Dudley Buxton

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