Roth, Walter E. (Walter Edmund), 1861-1933

Anthropologist and medical practitioner. Protector of Aborigines Qld 1889-1904, later Chief Protector 1904-1906.

From the description of Papers. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225817058

Walter Edmund Roth was born 2 April 1861 in London to Mathias and Anna Maria Roth nee Collins. He came to Sydney in late 1887. In 1896 he became government surgeon attached to hospitals at Boulia, then at Cloncurry and Normanton. In 1898 he became Queensland?s first northern Protector of Aborigines, serving in that position until 1904 when he became Chief Protector. Between 1901 and 1906 Roth published eighteen bulletins on northern Queensland ethnography. Roth left Australia in 1906 to work for the British Colonial Service in Guiana [Guyana] holding several positions. He later held the position of Government Archivist and Curator of the Georgetown Museum. Walter Edmund Roth died 5 April 1933 in Georgetown, Guyana. He is remembered in the naming of the Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology in Georgetown.

From the description of OM87-12 Walter Edmund Roth Papers, 1915-1919. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 755779986

Northern Protector of Aboriginals, Queensland.

From the description of Papers. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225764476