Person
Watson, Elliot Lovegood Grant (1885 - 1970)
- Born
- 14 June 1885
Staines, Middlesex, England - Died
- 21 May 1970
Petersfield, Hampshire, England - Occupation
- Anthropologist and Biologist
Summary
Elliot Watson joined A. Radcliffe-Browne in 1910 as Assistant Anthropologist on a scientific expedition to study Aboriginal society in north western Australia. He visited Australia again in 1912 and used images of the bush in his later writings.
Archival resources
National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
- Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson - Records, 1910 - 1955, MS 4950; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details
Published resources
Book Sections
- Green, Dorothy, 'Watson, Elliot Lovegood Grant (1885-1970), biologist, writer and mystic' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 12: 1891 - 1939 Smy-Z, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1990), pp. 397-398. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/watson-elliot-lovegood-grant-9000. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3115411. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/77557097. Details
- 'Watson, Elliot Lovegood Grant (1885-1970)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-478179. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 13 February 2018
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