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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Reverend William Alfred Norton
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Description area
Dates of existence
1870-1962
History
"Father Norton" was a missionary of the Society of the Sacred Mission stationed at Modderpoort. He was a member of the Committee of the Albany Natural History Society, Grahamstown and the Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1920 he was appointed as its first professor of Bantu philology at the University of Cape Town.
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Functions, occupations and activities
Archaeologist, Anthropologist