Polly Hill
5th Sep 2005, 14:25 GMT
Polly Hill, economic anthropologist: born Cambridge 10 June 1914; Editorial Assistant, Royal Economic Society 1936-38; researcher, Fabian Society 1938-39; civil servant 1940-51; editorial staff, West Africa 1951-53; Research Fellow, then Senior Research Fellow, Economics Department, followed by Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana 1954-65; Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge 1965-81 (Emeritus); Smuts Reader in Commonwealth Studies, Cambridge University 1973-79; Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow 1981-82; married 1953 Kenneth Humphreys (died 1985; one daughter; marriage dissolved 1961); died Isleham, Cambridgeshire 21 August 2005.
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