WEDGWOOD, CAMILLA HILDEGARDE (1901-1955), anthropologist and educationist, was
born on 25 March 1901 at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, fifth of seven children of
Josiah Clement Wedgwood, a naval architect, and his wife Ethel Kate, daughter of
Charles (Lord) Bowen, a lord of appeal in ordinary. Descended from Josiah Wedgwood
(1730-1795), the master potter, the Wedgwood and Darwin families were intertwined;
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gwen Raverat, and C. V. Wedgwood were cousins. Josiah
Clement fought in the Boer War then spent some years in South Africa; Camilla
passed her early childhood with her maternal grandmother at Halsteads in the Lake
District and, after 1906, with her parents at The Ark, Moddershall, near the
family kilns in Staffordshire.
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Australian Dictionary of Biography
Camilla Wedgwood, the fifth of seven children of Josiah and Ethel (née Bowen) Wedgwood, came to Australia in 1928 to lecture in anthropology at the University of Sydney. She then lectured at the University of Capetown, South Africa and at the London School of Economics and Political Science before being granted a fellowship to study the lives of women and children on Manam Island, New Guinea by the Australian National Research Council. Later Wedgwood became principal of Women's College at the University of Sydney and held this position until her appointment in the Australian Army Medical Women's Service, at the express wish of General Sir Thomas Blamey. She developed policies for postwar educational resconstruction in Papua New Guinea. Following her discharge Wedgwood returned to lecturing. A member of the Australian Student Christian Movement she was also involved with the Rachel Forster Hospital for Women and Children, the Anthropological Society of New South Wales, the Australian Federation of University Women and the Australian Institute of International Affairs.
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1920
Studied anthropology at Newnham College, Cambridge, under W E Armstrong and A C Haddon
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1922
Passed with first-class honours the English tripos
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1923
Held the Arthur Hugh Clough scholarship
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1924
Held the Bathurst scholarship
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1924
Passed anthropology tripos
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1924
Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
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1925
Joined the Society of Friends
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1926 - 1927
Assistant lecturer in the Department of Social Studies at Bedford College, London
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1927
Qualified as Master of Arts (MA)
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1928 - 1929
Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology with the University of Sydney
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1930
Temporary lecturer in the Department of African Life and Languages with the University of Cape Town
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1931 - 1932
Member of the British Social Hygiene Council
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1931 - 1932
Assistant lecturer with the London School of Economics
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1931 - 1932
Council member of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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1932 - 1934
Granted a fellowship by the Australian National Research Council for research work in Manam Island, New Guinea
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1935
Carried out research work in Nauru Island
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1935 - 1944
Principal of the Women's College at the University of Sydney
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1936 - 1944
Honorary lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sydney
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1944 - 1945
Service in New Guinea
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11 January 1944 - 16 January 1946
Lieutenant-colonel, in the Australian Army Medical Women's Service, attached to the Army Directorate of Research and Land Headquarters School of Civil Affairs
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1947 - 1948
Taught at the Institute of Education at the University of London
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1949
Senior lecturer in native administration at the Australian School of Pacific Administration (now ITI, International Training Institute)
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Australian Women's Register
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