| LC control no. | n 79032260 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Spencer, Baldwin, 1860-1929 |
| Variant(s) | Spencer, Baldwin, Sir, 1860-1929 Spencer, Walter Baldwin, 1860-1929 |
| Birth date | 1860-06-23 |
| Death date | 1929-07-14 |
| Place of birth | Stretford (Greater Manchester, England) |
| Place of death | Navarino Island (Chile) |
| Affiliation | University of Melbourne |
| Profession or occupation | Anthropologists College teachers |
| Found in | The northern tribes of central Australia, 1904: title page (Baldwin Spencer) Wanderings in wild Australia, 1928 title page (Sir Baldwin Spencer) Australian Dictionary of Biography, via WWW, May 21, 2014 (Spencer, Sir Walter Baldwin (1860-1929); Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer (1860-1929), university scientist and administrator, anthropologist and connoisseur, was born on 23 June 1860 at Stretford, Lancashire, England; he graduated with a B.A. from the University of Oxford in 1884 with a first in science; he was appointed chair of biology at the University of Melbourne in 1887; he retired as emeritus professor in 1919; in 1929 he sailed to Tierra del Fuego to undertake anthropological field-work; after three months under bleak conditions, Spencer died from angina pectoris on 14 July 1929 in a snowbound hut on Navarin Island; elected fellow of the Royal Society in 1900, he was appointed C.M.G. in 1904 and K.C.M.G. in 1916) |
| Associated language | eng |
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