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Portrait of Balfour published in Popular Science Monthly, 1904

Henry Balfour FRS[1] FRAI (11 April 1863 – 9 February 1939) was a British archaeologist, and the first curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum.

He was President of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Museums Association, Folklore Society, Royal Geographical Society, and a Fellow of the Royal Society.[2]

  1. ^ Haddon, A. C. (1940). "Henry Balfour. 1863-1939". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 3 (8): 108–126. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1940.0010. S2CID 192176923.
  2. ^ La Rue, Hélène (2004). "Balfour, Henry (1863–1939)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30557. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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