Edward Brabrook
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| Born | 1839  |
| Died | 1930 (aged 90–91) |
Sir Edward William Brabrook Folklore Society and a fellow of Society of Antiquaries of London and was awarded the silver Guy Medal in 1909.
Born in 1839 in London, Brabrook was a lawyer by training and became the senior registrar of
friendly societies. He wrote extensively on the law relating to working-class self-help institutions, promoting legal guides for industrial and provident (co-operative) societies, trade unions, and savings banks. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1897 Diamond Jubilee Honours
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His works included a proposal for an "Ethnographic Survey of the United Kingdom" put to the
Anthropological Institute and Society of Antiquaries.[3] He was president of the Anthropological Institute in 1895–1897;[4] and president of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society
from 1910 to 1930.
He died in 1930 in Wallington, Surrey and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery.
Bibliography
Brabrook, E.W. (1897). "Man in Zoology". The Zoologist. 4th series, vol 1 (issue 667, January): 13–21.- —— (1898). Provident Societies and Industrial Welfare. London: Blackie & Son.
- —— (January 1910). "Eugenics and pauperism". PMID 21259477.
References
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/74653. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ISSN 0028-0836.
- ^ "Ethnographic Survey of the United Kingdom" Alison Petch, Researcher 'The Other Within' project. Pitt Rivers Museum
- ^ "BRABROOK, Edward William". Who's Who, Biographies, 1901: 187. 1901.
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