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THE death of Mr. Jack Herbert Driberg on February 5 will come as a shock to his many friends and admirers. Born in April 1888, he was educated at Lancing College and Hertford College, Oxford, and in 1912 joined the Uganda Administration, spending nine years in it before he was transferred to the Sudan Political Service, from which he was invalided on pension in 1925. In 1923 he had written his well-known book, “The Lango: A Nilotic Tribe of Uganda”, and thus established his claim as an anthropologist, and, after a training in the London School of Economics, was appointed to a lectureship in the School of Archseology and Anthropology in Cambridge. He held this post until the outbreak of the War in 1939, when he resigned and volunteered for war-work and was posted to the Near East ; at the time of his death he was concerned with Middle East affairs in the Ministry of Information.
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HADDON, E. Mr. J. H. Driberg. Nature 157, 257–258 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157257b0
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