L. H. Dudley Buxton Explained

L. H. Dudley Buxton
Birth Name:	Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton
Birth Date:	1889
Education:	Radley College
Alma Mater:	Exeter College, Oxford
Workplaces:	University of Oxford
Module:	Embed: yes Allegiance: United Kingdom Branch: British Army Unit: Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders Intelligence Corps Battles: First World War Serviceyears: 1914–1918 Battles Label: Wars

Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton (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

• Book: 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. Proceedings of the XVIIth International Congress of Medicine, London, 1913. Hodder and Stoughton. London. Frowde. Henry. 772633966. none.
• Dudley Buxton. L. H.. Blackwood. Beatrice. Beatrice Blackwood. 1934. An Introduction to Oxfordshire Folklore. Folklore. 45. 1. 29–46. 1255759. none.
• 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. 10.2307/2792930. none.
• 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. 10.2307/2792930. none.
• Dudley Buxton. L. H.. Trevor. J. C.. Blackwood. Beatrice. Beatrice Blackwood. 1939. Measurements of Oxfordshire Villagers. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 69. 1. 1–10. 2844228. none.

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. 2843379 . none.
• Dudley Buxton. L. H.. 1. 1920. The Inhabitants of the Eastern Mediterranean. Biometrika. 13. 1. 92–112. 2331725. none.
• Dudley Buxton. L. H.. 1. 1921. Notes on Cypriot Textiles. Man. 21. February 1921. 17–19. 2840728. none.
• Dudley Buxton. L. H.. 1. 1921. Notes on Cypriot Textiles. Man. 21. March 1921. 40–44. 2840423. none.
• Dudley Buxton. L. H.. 1. 1921. Notes on Cypriot Textiles. Man. 21. April 1921. 50–55. 2839231. none.
• Dudley Buxton. L. H.. 1. 1921. Notes on Cypriot Textiles. Man. 21. May 1921. 67–70. 2840240. none.
• Dudley Buxton. L. H.. 1. 1922. The Ethnology of Malta and Gozo. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 52. 164–211. 10.2307/2843733 . none.
• Book: Dudley Buxton. L. H.. 1. 1924. The Eastern Road. K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.. London. 403317. none.
• Book: Dudley Buxton. L. H.. 1. 1924. Primitive Labour. Methuen . London. 4651949. none.
• Book: Dudley Buxton. L. H.. 1. 1925. The Peoples of Asia. K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.. London. 869358. none.
• Dudley Buxton. L. H.. 1. 1931. Künstlich deformierte Schädel von Cypern. de. Artificially Deformed Skulls from Cyprus. Anthropologischer Anzeiger. 7. 3/4. 236–240. 29535735. none.
• Dudley Buxton. L. H.. 1. 1931. A Cloisonné Staff-Head from Cyprus. Man. 32. 1–2. 2789760. none.

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. Web site: 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. 19856538 .
3. Blackwood . Beatrice . 1939 . Obituary Notices Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton, D.Sc., F.S.A. . Folklore . en . 50 . 2 . 204–205 . 10.1080/0015587X.1939.9718169 . 0015-587X. subscription .
4. Web site: Collections Online British Museum. 2020-06-06. www.britishmuseum.org.
5. Web site: L. H. Dudley Buxton: An anthropologist in Cyprus in 1913. 2020-06-06. en-GB.
6. Myres . John L.. John Myres. 1939. 98. Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton. 1890-5 March, 1939. Man. 39. 112. 2791539. 0025-1496.