Background
He was the son of an Anglican clergyman and was educated at Wellington College and Downing College, Cambridge, where he took his Bachelor in Natural Science in 1925, specialising in geology.
He was the son of an Anglican clergyman and was educated at Wellington College and Downing College, Cambridge, where he took his Bachelor in Natural Science in 1925, specialising in geology.
He was head of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge 1948-1970 and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. His interest lay in ancient America and he pursued it by becoming an oil geologist in Ecuador with Anglo-Ecuadorian Oilfields, for whom he worked from 1926 to 1938. After serving during the War with the Lincolnshire Regiment and the Royal Engineers, he became in 1948, Curator of Cambridge University"s Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, which he remained until he retired in 1970.
He was elected a Fellow of Corpus Christi College in 1963, became Reader in New World Archaeology in 1966, and was elected Federal Bar Association in 1970.