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CHRISTY, HENRY (1810-1865)

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 296 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CHR-CLI
CHRISTY, HENRY (1810-1865) , English ethnologist, was born at Kingston-on-Thames cn the 26th of July 181o. He entered his father's firm of hatters, in London, and later became a director of the London
Joint
 -Stock Bank. In 1850 he started on a
series
  of journeys, which interested him in ethnological_ studies. Encouraged by what he saw at the
Great
  Exhibition of 1851, Christy devoted the rest of his life to perpetual travel and research, making extensive collections illustrating the early history of man, now in the British Museum. He travelled in Norway, Sweden, Denmark,
Mexico
 , British Columbia and other countries; but in 1858 came the opportunity which brought him fame. It was in that year that the discoveries by Boucher de Perthes of flint-implements in France and England were first held to have clearly proved the
great
  antiquity of man. Christy joined the Geological Society, and in company with his friend Edouard Lartet explored the caves in the valley of the Vezere, a tributary of the Dordogne in the
south
  of France. To his task Christy devoted money and. time ungrudgingly, and an account of the explorations appeared in Comptes rendus (Feb. 29th, 1864) and Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London (June 21st, 1864). He died, however, on the 4th of May 1865, of inflammation of the lungs supervening on a severe cold contracted during excavation
work
  at La Palisse, leaving a half-finished book, entitled Reliquiae Aquitanicae, being contributions to the Archaeology and Palaeontology of Perigord and the adjacent provinces of Southern France; this was issued in parts and completed at the expense of Christy's executors, first by Lartet and, after his death in 1870, by Professor Rupert Jones. By his will Christy bequeathed his magnificent archaeological collection to the nation. In 1884 it found a
home
  in the British Museum. Christy took an
earnest
  part in many philanthropic movements of his time, especially identifying himself with the efforts to relieve the sufferers from the Irish
famine
  of 1847.


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