Geoffrey Bushnell

Geoffrey Hext Sutherland Bushnell, FBA (31 May 1903 – 26 December 1978) was a British archaeologist.

He was head of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge 1948–1970 and fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, since 1963.[1] He was the son of an Anglican clergyman and was educated at Wellington College and Downing College, Cambridge, where he took his BA in Natural Science in 1925, specialising in geology.[2] His interest lay in ancient America and he pursued it by becoming an oil geologist in Ecuador with Anglo-Ecuadorian Oilfields, for whom he worked from 1926 to 1938. His spare-time fieldwork formed the basis of his PhD thesis, awarded in 1948. After serving during the War with the Lincolnshire Regiment and the Royal Engineers, he became in 1948, Curator of Cambridge University's Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, which he remained until he retired in 1970. He was elected a Fellow of Corpus Christi College in 1963, became Reader in New World Archaeology in 1966, and was elected FBA in 1970.[3]

He married Patricia Louise Egerton Bushnell, née Ruck (5 February 1912 – 5 April 2009) in 1936, and they are buried together in the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge.[4]

References
  1. Chamber's Encyclopaedia. Vol. 10. International Learnings Systems. 1968. p. xi.
  2. Victoria Ebin; D. A. Swallow; Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (1984). "The proper study of mankind-- ": great anthropological collections in Cambridge. Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. pp. 25–. ISBN 978-0-947595-00-5.
  3. The New Encyclopaedia Britannica. Vol. 1–30. Encyclopaedia Britannica. 1983. pp. 39–. ISBN 978-0-85229-400-0. Geoffrey H.S. Bushnell (d. 1978). Reader in New World Archaeology, University of Cambridge, 1966-70; Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; Curator, University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 1948-70. Author of Peru and others.
  4. Who was who. Vol. 7. A. & C. Black. 1971. pp. 116–. ISBN 9780312877460. BUSHNELL, Geoffrey Hext Sutherland, MA, PhD, FBA 1970; Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, since 1963; author; Curator, University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, 1948-70, retd; Reader in New World Archaeology. 1966-70, now Emeritus; b 31 May 1903; s of Rev . G. D. S. Bushnell and Mildred Mary (nee Earle); m 1936, Patricia Louise Egerton Ruck; four s. Educ: Wellington; Downing Coll.. Cambridge. Geologist, Anglo-Ecuadorian Oilfields Ltd, ...
  • A.G. Woodhouse, "A History of Corpus Christi College Cambridge from 1952 to 1994" (1995), pp 94–6.
  • 'BUSHNELL, Geoffrey Hext Sutherland', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 5 March 2013


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