| Code | PX3771 |
| Dates | 1863-1939 |
| Person Name | Balfour; Henry (1863-1939); Curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford |
| Surname | Balfour |
| Forenames | Henry |
| Epithet | Curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford |
| Activity | Obtained his degree at Trinity College, Oxford during which time he helped to arrange the Pitt - Rivers collections. After his degree he continued to work at the Pitt Rivers Museum. He was appointed curator of the museum in 1891 a post which he held until his death. From 1907 he taught technology and prehistoric archaeology on the anthropology diploma course at Oxford. Between 1905 and 1909 he travelled to Norway 5 times to study whales and whaling and collected for his museum.
He became president of the Royal Antropological Institute in 1904, and of the Museums Association in 1909. President of the Royal Geographical Society 1936 - 1938 and elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1924.
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| Relationships | son of Lewis Balfour (1833–1885), silk broker of Croydon, and Sarah Walker Comber (1836?–1916).
1887 married Edith Marie Louise Wilkins only daughter of Robert Francis Wilkins of Kingswear, South Devon. Had one son |