Richard Slobodin

The author recalls Rivers' crediting Macaulay's account of his 1834 service in the Neilgherries of Southern India among the Todas with his initial interest in anthropology, noting, of course, that the rising young Whig, and the governor-general he served, were quite oblivious to the intricate and passionate lives led by the villagers around them. [99, notes 1 and 2.]

The first concise biography of the psychiatrist who treated WW I poets Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves. He was also friend of George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, and Arnold Bennett.