Background
He was born in Dronfield nearby Sheffield, England, and died in Grahamstown, South Africa.
anthropologist archaeologist Zoologist
He was born in Dronfield nearby Sheffield, England, and died in Grahamstown, South Africa.
He graduated with a first-class in natural sciences from Jesus College, Cambridge in 1903.
He was the author of several herpetological papers which described new species. From 1905 to 1908 he was Curator of the Sarawak Museum in Kuching, Sarawak. In 1909 he went to South Africa to work as an assistant curator at the Transvaal Museum in Pretoria.
In 1910 he was appointed Director of the Albany Museum in Grahamstown, eventually retiring in 1958.
He was succeeded as archaeologist at the Albany Museum by Hilary Deacon. In collaboration with C. West. Wilmot he excavated a cave on the farm Wilton, described the culture that has ever since been known as Wilton culture.
With the Reverend A. P. Stapleton he gave the first account of the Howiesons Poort culture.