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William Walford Thorpe, (1869 - 2 September 1932) ethnologist of the Australian Museum, founding member and secretary of The Anthropological Society of New South Wales in 1928 (with Clifton Cappie Towle), and editor of the society's journal Mankind. He married Elsie Mansfield, who bore him five sons. Thorpe undertook many field trips in New South Wales in the 1920s, such as , Newcastle, Sydney, Morna Point and Port Stephens for collecting purposes. The Thorpe Collection at the Australia Museum contains over 575 aboriginal objects that he collected and donated

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  • William Walford Thorpe, (1869 - 2 September 1932) ethnologist of the Australian Museum, founding member and secretary of The Anthropological Society of New South Wales in 1928 (with Clifton Cappie Towle), and editor of the society's journal Mankind. He married Elsie Mansfield, who bore him five sons. Thorpe undertook many field trips in New South Wales in the 1920s, such as , Newcastle, Sydney, Morna Point and Port Stephens for collecting purposes. The Thorpe Collection at the Australia Museum contains over 575 aboriginal objects that he collected and donated (en)
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  • William Walford Thorpe, (1869 - 2 September 1932) ethnologist of the Australian Museum, founding member and secretary of The Anthropological Society of New South Wales in 1928 (with Clifton Cappie Towle), and editor of the society's journal Mankind. He married Elsie Mansfield, who bore him five sons. He started working at the Australian Museum in 1898, in a variety of roles, including labourer, night-watchman and gallery attendant. In 1900, he became assistant to curator Robert Etheridge who played an important role in establishing the museum's anthropological collections, and in 1906, with no formal education and aged only twenty six he was appointed as the first ethnologist to the Museum where he stayed until his death in 1932. Thorpe undertook many field trips in New South Wales in the 1920s, such as , Newcastle, Sydney, Morna Point and Port Stephens for collecting purposes. The Thorpe Collection at the Australia Museum contains over 575 aboriginal objects that he collected and donated He was buried at Botany Cemetery, Sydney on 6 September 1932. (en)
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