Henry Evans Maude
Henry Evans Maude | |
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| Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands | |
| In office 1946–1949 | |
| Preceded by | Vivian Fox-Strangways |
| Succeeded by | John Peel |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1906 Bankipore, India |
| Died | 2006 Canberra, Australia |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Anthropologist and Colonial Service |
Henry Evans Maude, OBE (1 October 1906 – 4 November 2006) was a British Colonial Service administrator, historian and anthropologist.
Life and career
Maude was born in
rifle-shooting in 1926.[2]
He spent the years 1929–48 working as a civil servant and administrator in various
South Pacific Commission.[5]
From 1957 to 1961, he was a Research Fellow at the
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), which is part of the Australian National University in Canberra.[6] He has published widely on aspects of Pacific Islands history, was a co-founder of the Journal of Pacific History, and played an important role in establishing the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau.[1]
Personal life
He was the husband of Honor Courtney Maude (née King), a British-Australian authority on Oceanic string figures. She predeceased him, dying in 2001 in Canberra, aged 95.[7]
Death and legacy
Maude died, aged 100, on 4 November 2006.[1] The bulk of Maude's personal papers are held at the Barr Smith Library at the University of Adelaide, where an extensive set of pages devoted to his life and work can be found. He published the work of Sir Arthur Grimble.[8]
Bibliography
- Doug Munro, "Harry Maude—Loyal lieutenant, incurable romantic", The Ivory Tower and Beyond : Participant Historians of the Pacific, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, pp. 171–242.
- Woodburn, Susan (2003), Where our hearts still lie: Harry and Honor Maude in the Pacific islands, Crawford House Publishers, ISBN 978-1-86333-245-3.
- Gunson, Niel (1978), The Changing Pacific: Essays in Honour of H. E. Maude, Oxford University Press.
- Maude, H. E. (1968), Of Islands & Men, Melbourne, Oxford University Press.
- Maude, H. E. (1981) Slavers in Paradise; The Peruvian labour trade in Polynesia, 1862-1864, Canberra, Australian National University Press, ISBN 0-7081-1607-8
See also
References
- ^ a b c MAUDE, Henry Evans (1926) died on 4 November 2006, aged 100. One Hundred and Third Annual Report Archived 7 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Jesus College, Cambridge, 2007.
- ^ Ed. Boreham, J.Y. Highgate School Register 1838–1938 (4th ed.). p. 319.
- ^ Wikidata Q106827302.
- ^ "New Post for G. and E. Resident Commissioner". XVII(6) Pacific Islands Monthly. 20 January 1947. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
- . Retrieved 21 September 2021.
- ISBN 0-8047-1106-2
- ^ Honor Courtney Maude (née King) obituary, tandfonline.com. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
- ^ Papers of Henry Evans and Honor Courtney Maude, 1904–1999, Library of the University of Adelaide.
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