Henry Christy
1810–65
Ethnologist, archaeologist, geologist, and banker. Partner in the London banking house Christy & Co.; director of the London Joint-Stock Bank. Travelled for ethnological purposes in the East in 1850; in Scandinavia, 1852–3; in Canada, the United States, Cuba, and Mexico, 1856–7. Member of the Geological Society of London, 1858; conducted excavations of caves in the Vézère valley in southern France with Edouard Lartet in the 1860s.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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