L. H. Dudley Buxton

L. H. Dudley Buxton FSAS
Photographed at an uncertain date.
Born	Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton 1889
Died	5 March 1939(1939-03-05) (aged 49–50)
Academic background
Education	Radley College
Alma mater	Exeter College, Oxford
Academic work
Institutions	University of Oxford
Military career
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service / branch	British Army
Years of service	1914–1918
Unit	Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders Intelligence Corps
Wars	First World War

Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton FSAS (1889 – 5 March 1939), known as L. H. Dudley Buxton, was a British anthropologist. 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.[1] In the 1930s he carried research in Oxford with anthropologist Beatrice Blackwood.[2] He collected textiles that are currently in the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, the Bankfield Museum in Halifax and the British Museum.[3][4][5] 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.[6]

Publications

As co-author

• Ray, M. B.; Dudley Buxton, L. H. (1914). "Some Pathological and Other Conditions Observed Among the Human Remains from a Prehistoric Ethiopian Cemetery in the Southern Sudan". In Frowde, Henry (ed.). Proceedings of the XVIIth International Congress of Medicine, London, 1913. London: Hodder and Stoughton. OCLC 772633966.
• Dudley Buxton, L. H.; Blackwood, Beatrice (1934). "An Introduction to Oxfordshire Folklore". Folklore. 45 (1): 29–46. JSTOR 1255759.
• Rix, M. M.; Dudley Buxton, L. H. (1938). "The Anthropology of Prehistoric Cyprus: An Account of Neolithic and Bronze Age Skulls Including the Results of an Expedition to the Eastern Mediterranean in the Winter 1937–1938". Man. 38 (July 1938): 91–92. doi:10.2307/2792930.
• Dudley Buxton, L. H.; Trevor, J. C.; Blackwood, Beatrice (1939). "Measurements of Oxfordshire Villagers". The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 69 (1): 1–10. JSTOR 2844228.

As sole author

• Dudley Buxton, L. H. (1920). "The Anthropology of Cyprus". The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 50: 183–235. JSTOR 2843379.
• — (1920). "The Inhabitants of the Eastern Mediterranean". Biometrika. 13 (1): 92–112. JSTOR 2331725.
• — (1921). "Notes on Cypriot Textiles". Man. 21 (February 1921): 17–19. JSTOR 2840728.
• — (1921). "Notes on Cypriot Textiles". Man. 21 (March 1921): 40–44. JSTOR 2840423.
• — (1921). "Notes on Cypriot Textiles". Man. 21 (April 1921): 50–55. JSTOR 2839231.
• — (1921). "Notes on Cypriot Textiles". Man. 21 (May 1921): 67–70. JSTOR 2840240.
• — (1922). "The Ethnology of Malta and Gozo". The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 52: 164–211. doi:10.2307/2843733.
• — (1924). The Eastern Road. London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. OCLC 403317.
• — (1924). Primitive Labour. London: Methuen. OCLC 4651949.
• — (1925). The Peoples of Asia. London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. OCLC 869358.
• — (1931). "Künstlich deformierte Schädel von Cypern" [Artificially Deformed Skulls from Cyprus]. Anthropologischer Anzeiger (in German). 7 (3/4): 236–240. JSTOR 29535735.
• — (1931). "A Cloisonné Staff-Head from Cyprus". Man. 32: 1–2. JSTOR 2789760.

External links

• Photographic collection is searchable in the Photographic Collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum.
• Ethnographic and antiquities collection in the Pitt Rivers Museum.
• Cypriot ethnographic collection, mainly textiles, in the British Museum.

References

1. Nicolaou, Thomas (2018). "Ar(t)chaeology: Intersections of Art and Archaeology". Pitt Rivers Museum Photograph and Manuscript Collections.
2. Petch, Alison (2008). "Measuring the Natives: Beatrice Blackwood and Leonard Dudley Buxton's Work in Oxfordshire". History of Anthropology Newsletter. 35 (1): 3–14. PMID 19856538.
3. Blackwood, Beatrice (1939). "Obituary Notices Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton, D.Sc., F.S.A.". Folklore. 50 (2): 204–205. doi:10.1080/0015587X.1939.9718169. ISSN 0015-587X.
4. "Collections Online | British Museum". www.britishmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
5. "L. H. Dudley Buxton: An anthropologist in Cyprus in 1913". Retrieved 2020-06-06.
6. Myres, John L. (1939). "98. Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton. 1890-5 March, 1939". Man. 39: 112. ISSN 0025-1496. JSTOR 2791539.