Robert Henry Codrington

Career Missionary / Religious / Academic / Anthropologist

Biography Fellow of Wadham College before taking religious orders and emigrating to New Zealand where he joined the Melanesian Mission which he led from 1871-1877. He travelled throughout Melanesia, making collections as he worked. He worked as vicar of Wadhurst, Sussex from 1888-1893 and examining chaplain to the bishop of Chichester from 1894-1901. He seems to have remained in Sussex after this date [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 03/01/2007]Between 1888 and 1893 he was an active contributor to The English Dialect Dictionary - his contributions being presumably based on observations of his parishioners. There is an obituary in Man 22 (1922) 169-171. There may be some more background in a piece he wrote on the Codrington Family in the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, vol. 21. Jonathan Roper, School of English, University of Leeds.

Biography References http://anglicanhistory.org/oceania/davidson_codrington.pdf. / http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/abcde/codrington_robert.html / Encyclopedia Brittanica Online entry for Codrington, R(obert) H(enry) / Who was Who 2007 / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Henry_Codrington

County Sussex

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1911

Dates active 1830-1922

Donated around 1912

English collections Two bullroarers

Oxford Uni College Wadham

Oxford Uni Education Yes

Oxford Uni date 1849-1855

Oxford based No

Date in Oxford 1849 - 1857?

English collection size 2

Connections John Palmer / Henry Palmer Welchman / Henry Balfour / Richard Blundell Comins