Camilla Wedgwood
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England | |
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Died | 17 May 1955 Sydney, Australia | (aged 54)
Education | Orme Girls' School Bedales School |
Alma mater | Bedford College, London Newnham College, Cambridge |
Occupation | Anthropologist |
Parent(s) | Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood and Ethel Bowen Wedgwood |
Camilla Hildegarde Wedgwood (25 March 1901 – 17 May 1955) was a British
Early life and education
Wedgwood was born on 25 March 1901 in
Wedgwood was educated at two
Career
After leaving the University of Cambridge, Wedgwood returned to Bedford College as an assistant lecturer in the Department of Social Studies.[1][3] After Arthur Bernard Deacon's death in 1927, she was invited to move to the University of Sydney to replace him as lecturer in anthropology.[1][2] She was also asked by Alfred Radcliffe-Brown to edit Deacon's remaining field notes in preparation for publication.[1] These field notes were published as "Malekula: A Vanishing People in the New Hebrides" in 1934.[4] In 1930, she held a temporary lectureship in the Department of African Life and Languages at the University of Cape Town.[2] From 1930 to 1932, having returned to England, she was a lecturer at the London School of Economics and personal assistant to Bronisław Malinowski.[1][3]
In 1932, Wedgwood was awarded a fellowship by the
During World War II, Wedgwood was involved in formulating policy on education and administration in Papua New Guinea.[1] Having renounced her pacifism, she volunteered for the Australian Army Medical Women's Service and was commissioned as a temporary lieutenant colonel in January 1944.[2][3] After two years of service, she was demobilized in 1946.[2]
After the war, Wedgwood took a position at the Australian School of Pacific Administration, which was responsible for training Australian colonial officers and administrators.[3] She continued in this role until her death on 17 May 1955 of lung cancer at Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney.[3]
Wedgwood Close in the Canberra suburb of Chisholm is named in her honor.[5]
Personal life
Wedgwood was a member of the
Selected works
- Deacon, A. Bernard (1934). Wedgwood, Camilla H. (ed.). Malekula: A Vanishing People in the New Hebrides. London: Routledge.
References
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/65556. Retrieved 26 February 2017. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "WEDGWOOD, Hon. Camilla Hildegarde". Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. April 2014. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Wetherell, David (2002). "Wedgwood, Camilla Hildegarde (1901–1955)". Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 16. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
- ^ Marett, Robert Ranulph (2 August 1934). "A Vanishing People". The Times Literary Supplement. No. 1696. p. 536.
- ^ "Schedule 'B' National Memorials Ordinance 1928–1972 Street Nomenclature List of Additional Names with Reference to Origin: Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Special (National: 1977–2012) – 8 Feb 1978". Trove. p. 14. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
- ^ "PACIFISM AND PEACE". The Advertiser (Adelaide). South Australia. 3 June 1943. p. 4. Retrieved 6 August 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
Further reading
- Camilla : C.H. Wedgwood 1901–1955, a Life. 1990. By D. Wetherell and C. Carr-Gregg. Kensington, N.S.W. : New South Wales University Press.
- She was Very Cambridge: Camilla Wedgwood and the History of Women in British Anthropology. 1986. By Nancy Lutkehaus. American Ethnologist 13(4):776-98.
- Finding guide for Wedgwood's Papers in the National Library of Australia
- Australian Dictionary of Biography