George Wynn Brereton Huntingford (19 November 1901 – 19 February 1978) was an English

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and

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. He lectured in East African languages and cultures at

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from 1950 until 1966.George Wynn Brereton Huntingford
Archives Hub In 1966, Huntingford went to Canada to organise the Department of Anthropology at the

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, and retired to

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the next year, where he lived after his retirement.

Bibliography

* * ''The Northern Nilo-Hamites'' (1953) * ''The Southern Nilo- Hamites'' (1953) * ''The Galla of Ethiopia'' (1955) * Correspondence, seminar papers and reports relating to the history, languages and culture of the peoples of East Africa, collected by G.W.B. Huntingford are held b
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1901 births 1978 deaths Academics of SOAS University of London People from Newton Abbot 20th-century British anthropologists 20th-century British linguists English expatriates in Spain {{UK-historian-stub