Henry "Harry" Evans Maude, OBE

Order of the British Empire

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 (1 October 1906 – 4 November 2006) was a British civil servant and anthropologist. He was the husband of Honor Maude

Honor Maude

Honor Maude of Canberra, Australia was the world authority on Oceanic string figures, having published Maude & Maude 1958, Maude & Wedgewood 1967, Firth & Maude 1970, Maude 1971, Maude 1978, Emory & Maude 1979, Maude 1984, and Beaglehole & Maude 1989...

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Harry Maude was born 1 October 1906, in Bankipore, India.
Educated at Cambridge University

University of Cambridge

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, Harry Maude spent the years 1929-1948 working as a civil servant and administrator in various Pacific Islands

Pacific Islands

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, in particular the British colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands

Gilbert and Ellice Islands

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, even as Resident Commissioner

Resident Commissioner

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 from 1946 to 1949.

From 1948-1957, he worked for the South Pacific Commission. From 1957-1951, he was a Research Fellow at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies

Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies

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 (RSPAS), which is part of the Australian National University

Australian National University

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 in Canberra. 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.

Maude died, aged 100, on 4 November 2006.
The bulk of his personal papers are held at the University of Adelaide

University of Adelaide

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 Barr-Smith Library. An extensive set of pages devoted to the life and work of Harry Maude can be found at the University of Adelaide

University of Adelaide

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 library. He also published the work of Sir Arthur Grimble

Arthur Grimble

Sir Arthur Francis Grimble was a British Civil Servant and writer.After joining the Colonial Office, he became a cadet administrative officer in the Gilberts and became Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony in 1926.Specialist in the myths and oral traditions of Kiribati...

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External links

• Papers of Henry Evans and Honor Courtney Maude 1904-1999, Library of the University of Adelaide.