Gilbert Archey | |
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.jpg) Archey in 1927 | |
| Born | Gilbert Edward Archey 4 August 1890 York, England |
| Died | October 20, 1974(1974-10-20) (aged 84) |
| Education | Canterbury University College |
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Sir Gilbert Edward ArcheyCBE FRSNZ (4 August 1890 – 20 October 1974) was a New Zealandzoologist,ethnologist,World War I officer, and museum director. He wrote one of the major works on themoa, based on his own field work and collection. He also published numerous articles and described many new animal species.[1]: 337
Archey was born to Thomas Archey and Sarah Triffitt inYork, England in 1890, and emigrated to New Zealand with his parents, at age two. He graduated fromCanterbury University College, Christchurch, with the degree ofM.A. with honours inzoology in 1913.[2]
After a period teaching atNelson College, Archey was Assistant Curator of theCanterbury Museum from 1914 to 1923, where he studied and published papers on numerous New Zealand fauna. He particularly worked on New Zealand moa,Dinornithiformes, extinct macroflauna birds. In 1924 he participated in the1924 Chatham Islands Expedition.[3] He was then appointed Director of theAuckland Institute and Museum in 1924, and was personally responsible for getting funding from theCarnegie Corporation of New York in 1935.[2]
In the First World War, he served in the New Zealand Field Artillery, rising to the rank of captain. In the Second World War he was attached to theBritish Military Administration inMalaya with the rank of lieutenant-colonel.[2]
He was on the New Zealand University Grants Committee, 1948–51, 1954–60, and on the Council of theRoyal Society of New Zealand, being president from 1941 to 1942. He was a member of the Maori Purposes Fund Board, the Waitangi National Trust Board, and the Auckland branch of the Royal Society, and the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council.[2] He retired from the Auckland Museum early in 1964. His publications, apart from contributions to learned journals, includeThe Moa, a Study of the Dinornithiformes (1941),South Sea Folk (1937 and 1949);Sculpture and Design, an Outline of Maori Art (1955); andWhaowhia: Maori art and its artists (1977).[1]: 338
He was appointed anOfficer of the Order of the British Empire in 1919, for services in connection with military operations in France and Flanders,[4] and promoted toCommander of the Order of the British Empire in the1958 Queen's Birthday Honours.[5] In 1935, he was awarded theKing George V Silver Jubilee Medal,[6] and in 1953 he received theQueen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal.[7] He was appointed aKnight Bachelor in the1963 Queen's Birthday Honours.[8]
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