Lectionary Calendar
Sunday, December 22nd, 2024
the Fourth Week of Advent
Attention!
Take your personal ministry to the Next Level by helping StudyLight build churches and supporting pastors in Uganda.
Click here to join the effort!

Bible Encyclopedias
Sir Herbert Hope Risley

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

Search for…
or
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z
Prev Entry
Sir Herbert Croft
Next Entry
Sir Herbert Louis Samuel
Resource Toolbox

"SIR HERBERT HOPE RISLEY (1851-1911), English anthropologist, was born at Akeley, Bucks., Jan. 4 1851. Educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, he entered the Indian civil service in 1873 and he had a distinguished career; but his principal work was done in connexion with Indian ethnography, the discussion of the caste system, etc., and he published under Government auspices some important volumes of anthropometric data. He had charge of the Indian census operations of 1901. In 1910 he was appointed secretary of the judicial department of the India Office. He was made K.C.I.E. in 1907, and he died at Wimbledon Sept. 30 1911.

Bibliography Information
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Sir Herbert Hope Risley'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​s/sir-herbert-hope-risley.html. 1910.
 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile