- Robert Gayre
George Robert Gayre of Gayre and Nigg (
6 August 1907 St. Martin's Press Staff (2001). "Who Was Who 1996-2000 Volume X: A Companion to WHO'S WHO -- Containing the Biographies of Those Who Died During the Period 1996-2000." Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 9780312293666. Some sources give 1905 as birth year.] -February 10 1996 ) was a Scottishanthropologist who founded "Mankind Quarterly ". An expert onheraldry , he also founded "The Armorial", and produced many books on this subject.Billig, Michael. Gayre, George Robert (1907–1996). "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography." first published Sept 2004, 680 words]Education and military service
Born in
Cornwall and an Anglican, he earned an MA fromUniversity of Edinburgh , then studied atExeter College, Oxford .Gayre served with the
British Expeditionary Force in France in 1939, as a Lieutenant-Colonel in theRoyal Artillery [ [http://web.archive.org/web/20020218211336/http://www.ferris.edu/ISAR/archives/billig/chapter3.htm Mankind Quarterly: The editors.] ] afterwards becoming Educational Adviser to the Allied Military Government ofItaly , based inPalermo , where he fought for the exclusion of left-wing text-books and communist influence from the Italian education system. He was thereafter Director of Education to the Allied Control Commission for Italy, based inNaples ; and Chief of Education and Religious Affairs, German Planning Unit,Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force . [ Gayre of Gayre & Nigg, Robert, "A Case for Monarchy", Edinburgh, 1962: vii - ix] After the war he spent a considerable amount of time inIndia where he was instrumental in the establishment of the Italo-Indian Institute. [ Gayre of Gayre & Nigg, Robert, "A Case for Monarchy", Edinburgh, 1962: x]Heraldry
Both Gayre and Sir
Thomas Innes of Learney were authors of books on heraldry. As Chief ofClan Gayre , Gayre appended "of Gayre and Nigg" becoming Grand Almoner, and Hereditary Commander of Lochore, of theOrder of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem . [ Gayre of Gayre & Nigg, Robert, with Dunn, John, "The Armorial Who is Who," 5th edition, Edinburgh, 1978:135]His 1959 book "Heraldic Standards and Other Ensigns: Their development and history" is considered an important work on the subject, and he contributed on the topic to "
Encyclopædia Britannica "."Mankind Quarterly" and publications on race
Gayre was editor of "Mankind Quarterly" from 1960 to 1978, and was honorary editor-in-chief thereafter.Gayre, Robert, summary and photo of him on: [http://jtl.org/links/gayre.html Race and Nazi Racism and the Latter's Impact on Anthropology.] "The Mankind Quarterly", Vol. XVIII, No. 4, (April-June 1978), pp. 293-303.]
In 1968 he testified on behalf of members of the
Racial Preservation Society who were charged under theRace Relations Act for publishing racialist material. They prevailed in their defense. In his evidence to the court Gayre described blacks as being "feckless" and he maintained that scientific evidence showed that blacks "prefer their leisure to the dynamism which the white and yellow races show."Billig, Michael (1979). [http://web.archive.org/web/20020218211336/http://www.ferris.edu/ISAR/archives/billig/chapter3.htm Mankind Quarterly: The editors.] in " [http://web.archive.org/web/20000826221047/http://www.ferris.edu/ISAR/archives/billig/ Psychology, Racism & Fascism: A Searchlight Pamphlet.] " Birmingham: A.F. & R. Publications.]elected bibliography
*"Teuton and Slav on the Polish Frontier: : A diagnosis of the racial basis of the Germano-Polish borderlands, with suggestions for the settlement of German and Slav claims." Eyre and Spottiswoode (1944) ASIN: B0007J1KXK
*"Italy in Transition: Extracts from the private journal of G.R. Gayre." Faber and Faber Ltd (1946) ASIN: B0006DB91U
*"Gayre's Booke: Being a History of the Family of Gayre." Phillimore (1948) ASIN: B00069X8L8
*"Wassail! In Mazers of Mead: An Account of Mead, Metheglin, Sack and Other Ancient Liquors, and of the mazer cups out of which they were drunk, with some ... upon the drinking customs of our forebears." Phillimore (1948) ASIN: B0007IYD4O
*"Heraldic Standards and Other Ensigns: Their development and history." Oliver and Boyd (1959) ASIN: B0007IV3L0
*"The Nature of Arms: An Exposition of the Meaning and Significance of Heraldry with Special..." 1961, Oliver and Boyd
*"The Nature of Arms: An Exposition of the Meaning and Significance of Heraldry with Special..." 1961, Oliver and Boyd
*"Heraldic cadency;: The development of differencing of coats of arms for kinsmen and other purposes. Foreword by the Duke of Salandra and Serracapriola." Faber and Faber (1961) ASIN: B0007IUYCE
*"The House of Gayre and an account of Minard castle." The Armorial (1960) ASIN: B0007KCG46
*"The Bantu homelands of the northern Transvaal Duquesne University Press (1962) ASIN: B0007ETDFW
*"More Ethnological elements of Africa." Armorial (1972) ASIN: B0007AILLSReferences
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