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=Miriam Tildesley=

Miriam Louise Tildesley (1 July 1883 – 1 January 1979) was an anthropologist.

Biography
// all taken from ODNB - one source :( //

Miriam Tildesley was born in Willenhall, Staffordshire in 1883 to William Henry and Rebecca (née Fisher). She did statistical work during the First World War, with the support of Professor Karl Pearson at University College, London, and studied elementary statistics. In 1918 she was appointed Crewdson Benington research student in craniometry.

In 1920 she was appointed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research to work on the human osteological collections at the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons under Arthur Keith, later becoming a research assistant there in charge of the collection. Her study of the skull of Thomas Browne helped to cast doubt on the connection between craniometric data and intelligence.

Later she was appointed a curator of human osteology at the museum, and was chairman of the Comité de Standardisation de la Technique Anthropologique during the 1930s. In 1939 she was made a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

In the early 1920s she became increasingly interested in Albania, and published articles on this subject. She was appointed MBE for her services to anthropology.

She died on 31 January 1979 at Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, and was cremated in Wolverhampton.

Publications
Vol. 25, No. 1/2 (May, 1933), pp. 21-51) http://www.jstor.org/stable/2332259
 * ‘Preliminary Note on the Association of Steadiness and Rapidity of Hand with Artistic Capacity’ (Biometrika, Vol. 12, No. 1/2 (Nov., 1918), pp. 170-177) http://www.jstor.org/stable/2331934
 * ‘A First Study of the Burmese Skull’ (Biometrika, Vol. 13, No. 2/3 (Jul., 1921), pp. 176-262) http://www.jstor.org/stable/2331753
 * ‘Sir Thomas Browne: His Skull, Portraits, and Ancestry’ (originally in Biometrika, Vol. 15, No. 1/2 (Aug., 1923), pp. 1-76; also published separately with 34 plates and a pedigree) http://www.jstor.org/stable/2331889
 * ‘Determination of the Cranial Capacity of the Negro from Measurements on the Skull or the Living Head’ (Biometrika, Vol. 19, No. 1/2 (Jul., 1927), pp. 200-206) http://www.jstor.org/stable/2332183
 * ‘Dentition as a measure of maturity’ (British Dental Journal, 1928, 1–8) // from ODNB - not confirmed
 * ‘The Albanians of the North and South: (1) Introductory Account of Measurements and Photographs Taken in 1929’ (Biometrika,