IDNO

P.145639.MUS

Description

Studio head and shoulders portrait of Rev. John Roscoe, an Anglican missionary and anthropologist who worked in East Africa. Roscoe is shown as an older man with a moustache and wearing a jacket over his clerical collar and robe. [JD 21/07/2020]

Place

E Africa; Europe British Isles; Uganda; United Kingdom; England; London

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Rev. John Roscoe

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Clark, Grahame [for 'Prehistory at Cambridge and Beyond']

Date

circa 1920s - 1932

Collection Name

Museum Objects and Galleries

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.145605.MUS - P.145683.MUS found uncatalogued in a paper and plastic bag in the Paper Archives and transferred by JD 21/11/2019

Letter inside bag from Cambridge University Press to David Phillipson dated 21 November 1989, states "I am returning herewith the photographs you kindly supplied for Grahame Clark's 'Prehistory at Cambridge and Beyond'." [JD 21/11/2019]

Named Person: John Roscoe (1861–1932)[1] was an Anglican missionary to East Africa. He conducted anthropological data collection of the Africans he encountered on mission.
Roscoe was born in 1861, during the height of the Victorian era. Roscoe's career heavily echoed the Victorian notion of improving natives under British rule. He studied civil engineering before joining the Anglican Church Missionary Society. In 1884, on mission, he travelled to what became the Uganda Protectorate, and lived there among several African tribes until 1909. From his experiences in Africa, Roscoe wrote Twenty-Five Years in East Africa, which was published in 1921. He intended the book to be an anthropological reference for Britons.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Roscoe