Bro. Alfred Cort Haddon
Alfred Cort Haddon, D.Sc (Cantab), FRS [1st June, 1899] (24th May, 1855 - 20th April, 1940), Anthropologist, 2nd child and elder son of John Haddon (1823–1904) and Caroline Waterman.
Educated at Christ’s College, Cambridge, 1875 (BA, 1st Class, Natural Science Tripos). After a 6-month spell at the zoological station at Naples, appointed Curator, Zoological Museum, Cambridge and a University Demonstrator in Zoology. Prof of Zoology, Royal College of Science, Dublin, 1880, where he served also as Asst Naturalist to the Science and Art Museum. Carried out pioneering field research around Irish coasts in the scientific classification of sea anemones, he developed an ethnographical interest in western Irish life. In 1888–89, with the aid of grants from Royal Irish Academy and the Darwin Fund of the Royal Society, he studied the marine biology of coral reefs in the Torres Strait. |
Bro. Alfred Cort Haddon
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He began lecturing in physical anthropology at Cambridge 1894–98 and was awarded a D.Sc (Cantab) 1897. Organized and led the famous Cambridge anthropological expedition of 1898–99 to the Torres Strait and New Guinea, spending some months with Charles Hose in Borneo on the return journey from Malanesia. In 1900, University Lecturer in Ethnology at Cambridge and the following year elected a Fellow of Christ’s College, permitting to resign his Dublin Chair. Published Head-Hunters Black, White and Brown, 1901, his popular account of the Torres Strait expedition.
Bro. Haddon was initiated, 27th March, 1888 and passed 24th April, 1888, Lodge No. 261 (IC), Dalkey, Dublin, and raised 6th June, 1888 in Eblana Lodge No. 158 (IC), Dublin (no longer extant), his then address being Willow Bank, Kingstown [now Dun Laoghaire]. He joined the Alma Mater Lodge No. 1492, Cambridge on the 28th November, 1903 when a Lecturer at Christ’s College, Cambridge and was Worshipful Master in 1918, remaining a member until his death.
Bro. Haddon was initiated, 27th March, 1888 and passed 24th April, 1888, Lodge No. 261 (IC), Dalkey, Dublin, and raised 6th June, 1888 in Eblana Lodge No. 158 (IC), Dublin (no longer extant), his then address being Willow Bank, Kingstown [now Dun Laoghaire]. He joined the Alma Mater Lodge No. 1492, Cambridge on the 28th November, 1903 when a Lecturer at Christ’s College, Cambridge and was Worshipful Master in 1918, remaining a member until his death.