Edgar Thurston

Edgar Thurston
CIE
Superintendent of the Madras Government Museum and Connemara Public Library
In office
1885–1908[1]
Preceded byGeorge Bidie
Succeeded byJohn Robertson Henderson
Personal details
Born1855
Died1935
Penzance, England
Alma materKing's College, London
ProfessionMuseum superintendent, zoologist, anthropologist
The title page of the first volume of Castes and Tribes of Southern India (1909).

Edgar Thurston CIE (1855– 12 October 1935) was the British Superintendent at the Madras Government Museum from 1885 to 1908 who contributed to research studies in the fields of zoology, ethnology and botany of India, and later also published his works at the museum. Thurston was educated in medicine and lectured in anatomy at the Madras Medical College while simultaneously holding a senior position at the museum. His early works were on numismatics and geology, and these were later followed by researches in anthropology and ethnography. He succeeded Frederick S. Mullaly as the Superintendent of Ethnography for the Madras Presidency.[2]

  1. ^ Dirks, Nicholas B. (2015). Autobiography of an Archive: A Scholar's Passage to India. Columbia University Press. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-23153-851-0.
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