Henry Evans Maude


Henry Evans “H.E.” Maude, OBE (1 October 1906 – 4 November 2006) was a British civil servant, historian and anthropologist.

Henry Evans Maude
Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands
In office
1946–1949
Preceded byVivian Fox-Strangways
Succeeded byJohn Peel
Personal details
Born1906
Bankipore, India
Died2006
Canberra, Australia
NationalityBritish
OccupationAnthropologist and Colonial Service

Life and career

Maude was born in Bankipore, India.[1] Educated at Highgate School from 1921 to 1925, and Jesus College, Cambridge, Maude represented India at rifle-shooting in 1926.[2]

He spent the years 1929–48 working as a civil servant and administrator in various Pacific Islands, in particular the British colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, serving as land commissioner before WWII then, after the Japanese occupation of the Gilbert Islands, as Resident Commissioner from 1946 to 1949. From 1948 to 1957, he worked for the South Pacific Commission.

From 1957 to 1961, he was a Research Fellow at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), which is part of the Australian National University in Canberra.[3] He has published widely on aspects of Pacific Islands history, was a co-founder of the Journal of Pacific History, and played an important role in establishing the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau.[1]

Personal life

He was the husband of Honor Courtney Maude (née King), a British-Australian authority on Oceanic string figures. She predeceased him, dying in 2001 in Canberra, aged 95.[4]

Death and legacy

Maude died, aged 100, on 4 November 2006.[1] The bulk of Maude's personal papers are held at the Barr Smith Library at the University of Adelaide, where an extensive set of pages devoted to his life and work can be found. He published the work of Sir Arthur Grimble.[5]

Bibliography
  • Doug Munro, "Harry Maude—Loyal lieutenant, incurable romantic", The Ivory Tower and Beyond : Participant Historians of the Pacific, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, pp. 171–242.
  • Woodburn, Susan (2003), Where our hearts still lie: Harry and Honor Maude in the Pacific islands, Crawford House Publishers, ISBN 978-1-86333-245-3.
  • Gunson, Niel (1978), The Changing Pacific: Essays in Honour of H. E. Maude, Oxford University Press.
  • Maude, H. E. (1968), Of Islands & Men, Melbourne, Oxford University Press.
  • Maude, H. E. (1981) Slavers in Paradise; The Peruvian labour trade in Polynesia, 1862-1864, Canberra, Australian National University Press, ISBN 0-7081-1607-8

See also

References
  1. MAUDE, Henry Evans (1926) died on 4 November 2006, aged 100. One Hundred and Third Annual Report Archived 7 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Jesus College, Cambridge, 2007.
  2. Ed. Boreham, J.Y. Highgate School Register 1838–1938 (4th ed.). p. 319.
  3. Maude, H.E. (1981), Slavers in Paradise: The Peruvian Slave Trade in Polynesia, 1862-1864, Stanford University Press and Australian National University Press, ISBN 0-8047-1106-2
  4. Honor Courtney Maude (née King) obituary, tandfonline.com. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  5. Papers of Henry Evans and Honor Courtney Maude, 1904–1999, Library of the University of Adelaide.
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