User:Msrasnw/David Turton

Northern Ireland
REF https://steamindex.com/people/engrs.htm#cantlie "Cantlie, Kenneth Kenneth Cantlie was born in London, the youngest son of Sir James Cantlie, specialist in tropical diseases (died 1926 ODNB) who had worked in China and had also developed a strong sympathy for those who suffered poverty and ill-health in Britain.. Kenneth Cantlie was educated in Aberdeen and following WW1, was a C.J. Bowen Cooke pupil at Crewe 1916-20. He then worked on railways in Argentina and in Jodhpur. He was appointed technical adviser to the Chinese Minister of Railways in 1929. He returned to Britain in 1937 and during WW2 was involved in loading tanks onto railway wagons. Snell's One man's railway page 51 notes Major Cantlie's involvement with the RHDR during WW2. In 1948 Cantlie was appointed the overseas representative of the Locomotive Manufacturers' Association. He advised on the establishment of the locomotive works at Chitteranjan in India. He was mainly responsible for the Chinese 4-8-4 project: see Atkins The Golden age of locomotive building. Chapter 8 and Newcomen Society paper. He worked for the British Caprotti company in the post-WW2 period. He died on 11 February 1986, aged 86. His comments on Thorley's paper on locomotive ergonomics are interesting, although in the 21st century would be regarded as reactionary. See also snippit in LMS 150... . "

The cattle complex is a term coined by the American anthropologist Melville Herskovits refering to a set of culturual traits including the identiication of favourite cows, the use of cows as bridewealth orin sacrifice and the preference for cows with certain markings and horn shapes.

]. His dissertation, titled "The Cattle Complex in East Africa", investigated theories of power and authority in the African region. He studied how some aspects of African culture and traditions were evident in African Americans in the 1900s. In 1927, Herskovits moved to Northwestern University as a full-time anthropologist and established the Department of Anthropology in 1938.

Works

 * The Cattle Complex in East Africa, PhD Dissertation, 1923