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William Rivers

W. H. R. Rivers
W.H.R.Rivers (Maull).jpg
Photograph of Rivers taken by Henry Maull
Born (1864-03-12)12 March 1864
Chatham, Kent
Died 4 June 1922(1922-06-04) (aged 58)
Evelyn Nursing Home, Cambridge
Residence Kent, London and Cambridge
Nationality English
Fields Anthropology
Ethnology
Neurology
Psychiatry
Psychology
Institutions University College, London
University of Cambridge
Craiglockhart War Hospital
Alma mater University of London
Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital
Doctoral students Charles Samuel Myers
William McDougall
John Layard
Robert H. Thouless
William James Perry
Known for

1898 Torres Strait Islands expedition
Experiments on nerve regeneration with Henry Head

Treating soldiers during World War I who were suffering from shell shock
Influenced Siegfried Sassoon
Robert Graves
Frederic Bartlett
Notable awards Honorary M.A from the University of Cambridge, 1897
Croonian Lecturer, 1906
Royal Medal, 1915
Signature

1898 Torres Strait Islands expedition
Experiments on nerve regeneration with Henry Head

William Halse Rivers Rivers, FRCP, FRS, ((1864-03-12)12 March 1864 – 4 June 1922(1922-06-04)) was an English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist, best known for his work treating World War I officers who were suffering from shell shock. Rivers's most famous patient was the poet Siegfried Sassoon, with whom he remained close friends until his own sudden death. Rivers was a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and is also notable for his participation in the Torres Straits expedition of 1898 and his consequent work on the subject of kinship.

Rivers was born in 1864 at Constitution Hill, Chatham, Kent, son of Elizabeth Hunt (16 October 1834 – 13 November 1897) and Henry Frederick Rivers (7 January 1830 – 9 December 1911).

Records from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries show the Rivers family to be solidly middle-class with many Cambridge, Church of England and Royal Navy associations, the most famous of which were Midshipman William Rivers and his father Gunner Rivers who both served aboard HMS Victory.


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