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Variants
- Hill, Mary Eglantyne, 1914-2005
- Humphreys, Mary Eglantyne Hill, 1914-2005
Identifies LC/NAF RWO
Identifies RWO
Birth Date
- 1914-06-14
Death Date
- 2005-08-21
Has Affiliation
- Organization: University of Cambridge
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Clare Hall
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Newnham College
Has Affiliation
- Organization: University of Ghana
Has Affiliation
- Organization: University College of Ghana
Has Affiliation
- Organization: University College of the Gold Coast
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1938
- Affiliation End: 1939
- Organization: Fabian Society (Great Britain)
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Great Britain. Colonial Office
Birth Place
- Cambridge (England)
Associated Language
- English
Field of Activity
Occupation
(lcsh) Great Britain. Officials, employees, etc.
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Sources
- found: Her The unemployment services ... 1940.
- found: The Guardian (online), Polly Hill : an academic who pinpointed a unique class of African farming entrepreneurs, 26 Aug 2005, viewed August 10, 2021(Polly Hill; b. June 14, 1914; d. Aug. 21, 2005, aged 91; economic anthropologist; read economics at Newnham College, Cambridge; published a study of unemployment for the Fabian Society, for which she worked 1938-1939; civil servant 1940-1951; journalist for the weekly, West Africa, 1951-1953; spent a decade at the University of Ghana, 1954-1965; there she did the work that made her famous, The Migrant Cocoa-Farmers of Southern Ghana (1963); published subsequent essays on rural capitalism in West Africa; PhD in social anthropology from the University of Cambridge, 1967, for her publications; appointed Smuts reader in Commonwealth studies there 1973-1979; became a fellow of Clare Hall, wrote books on food farming and rural poverty in Northern Nigeria and South India; married for a while to Kenneth Humphreys and kept his name for some professional purposes; never had an established teaching position, but inspired many young researchers; her work contradicted the conventional thinking of development economists) - https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/aug/26/guardianobituaries.highereducation
- found: Oxford dictionary of national biography (online), viewed August 10, 2021(Hill, Mary Eglantyne [Polly], 1914-2005; born in Cambridge; from a formidable Cambridge academic dynasty; during the Second World War she worked successively for the Treasury, the Board of Trade, and the statistics department of the Colonial Office; her life was 'forever changed' by her posting to the Gold Coast in 1952; married Kenneth Albert Curwood Humphreys (d. 1985) on 20 July 1953; the next year she finally entered academia, taking up a research fellowship in economics at the University College of the Gold Coast (became University of Ghana in 1961); published under her maiden name; died at Isleham, Ely, Cambridgeshire) - https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-96631;jsessionid=ED5AE6BEF09EE524AC62303A54D1D633
LC Classification
- PR6015.I478
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Change Notes
- 1980-07-17: new
- 2023-09-06: revised
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