Walter Edmund Roth

Walter Edmund Roth was born on 2 April 1861 in London, the son of a Hungarian refugee doctor. Trained at Oxford and St Thomas's Hospital, he practised medicine in Queensland, where from 1898 he was the first protector of the Aborigines of the north, then chief protector; attacked by settlers, politicians and the press, he resigned in 1906 for reasons of health. A magistrate in British Guiana from 1907, he drafted the 1910 ordinance protecting Amerindians, led three expeditions into the interior, then directed the Georgetown museum, where he died on 5 April 1933.

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• TaleAn Inquiry into the Animism and Folk-Lore of the Guiana IndiansWalter Edmund Roth · 1915Literature