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Roth, Henry Ling (1855 - 1925)
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Anthropologist and Museum curator
Born: 3 February 1855  London, England.  Died: 12 May 1925  Leeds, England.
Henry Ling Roth spent several years in Queensland 1878-84, reporting widely on the sugar industry. He wrote "The Tasmanian Aborigines", an encyclopaedic work which remained the basic source until 1966. He left Australia in 1884 and set up a business in Halifax, Yorkshire, UK and was also first the part-time then full-time curator of the Bankfield Museum.
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1876 - 1877Timber merchant in Russia
1878 - 1884Investigated and reported on the sugar industry in Queensland
1881 - 1884Honorary Secretary to the Mackay Planters' Association
1884Left Australia
1890The Tasmanian Aborigines written
1890 - 1912Curator (part-time) at Bankfield Museum
1912 - 1924Curator at Bankfield Museum

 
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