Keith, Sir Arthur
(1866–1955)
- W. E. Le Gros Clark
- , revised by Harold Ellis
Extract
Keith, Sir Arthur (1866–1955), museum curator and palaeoanthropologist, was born on 5 February 1866 at Old Machar, Aberdeenshire, the sixth of the ten children of John Keith, a farmer, and his wife, Jessica (Jessie) Macpherson. To prepare for a medical education he went to ...