Chilver, Sally (1914–)
Chilver, Sally (1914–)
English anthropologist and educator. Name variations: Sally Graves; E.M. Chilver or Mrs. E.M. Chilver. Born Sally Graves in 1914 in England; dau. of Philip Graves, Times correspondent; niece of Robert Graves (poet and novelist); m. Richard Chilver, 1938.
Began career as a journalist; with anthropologist Phyllis Kaberry, worked in, and investigated the ethnography of, the Grassfields of Cameroon in West-central Africa (1958–63), bringing the region to world attention; served as director of Oxford Institute of Commonwealth Studies (1958–61); became principal of Bedford College, London (1964), and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (1971).
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