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ON April 10 there passed away in his eighty-fifth year Dr. Alfred Cort Haddon, the doyen of British anthropologists. Haddon came of Northamptonshire stock, his grandfather founding the firm of John Haddon and Co., printers and typefounders and also produce brokers. The family business connexion brought people from all parts of the world to Haddon's home, and this may well have influenced his choice of a career. From his mother, who wrote children's books, came an interest in natural history, and young Haddon spent much of his time at the Zoo studying and drawing animals. This led friends to advise his father to send him to Cambridge to study zoology, but the boy was destined for his father's business, which he entered on leaving Mill Hill School.
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SELIGMAN, C. Dr. A. C. Haddon, F.R.S. Nature 145, 848–850 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145848a0
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