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SIR WILFBED GBIGSON‘S death in an air accident in Pakistan will be felt as a serious loss by the administration of that country and by anthropologists in Great Britain. He was born in 1896, the son of Canon W s. Grigson, vicar of Polynt in Cornwall, and educated at St. John‘s, Leatherhead, and Christ Church, Oxford, where he held a classical scholarship. He served in Flanders, Mesopotamia and palestine during the First World War, and entered the Indian Civil Service in 1919, starting his career in the Central Provinces, where his experiences as administrator of Bastar State turned his attention to anthropology and to the ethnology of the Gonds in particular. From Bastar he went to Berar, and in 1928 his services were lent to the Government of the Nizam of Hyderabad. He returned to the Central Provinces in 1940, but after holding several important posts there, returned to Hyderabad in 1946 as a member of the Nizam‘s Executive Council. Retiring from the Indian Civil Service in 1947, he entered the service of Pakistan as Commissioner for Refugees, a post in which he had to deal—and did deal with the sympathetic efficiency typical of him—with the difficult situations created by the streams of some millions of Muslims who swarmed into Pakistan from the East Punjab after the boundary commission had come to its findings.
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Sir Wilfred Grigson, C.S.I. Nature 163, 13 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163013a0
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