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William Churchill F.R.A.I., AIA, AAG (1859–1920) was an American Polynesian ethnologist and philologist, born in Brooklyn, New York, and educated at Yale, where he wrote for campus humor magazine ''The Yale Record''.〔"William Churchill". ''Obituary Record of Yale Graduates 1919-1920''. New Haven: Yale University. August, 1920. p. 1425.〕 In 1896 he became Consul General to Samoa. In 1897 his commission was extended, making him also Consul General to Tonga. In 1902 he began working for ''New York Sun'', where he later became a member of the editorial staff. In 1915, he took a position as research associate in primitive philology at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C.〔Ibid.〕 While working for the Committee on Public Information during World War I, he suffered a skull fracture inflicted by an enemy spy.〔Ibid.〕 Churchill was the author of: * ''A Princess of Fiji'' (1892)〔(William Churchill (1892) ''A Princess of Fiji'' ), Dodd, Mead and Company, New York (Google eBook)〕 * ''The Polynesian Wanderings, Tracks of the Migration Deduced from an Examination of the Proto-Samoan Content of Efaté and other Languages of Melanesia'' (1910)〔(William Churchill (1911) ''The Polynesian Wanderings'' ), Carnegie institution of Washington (Google eBook)〕 * ''Beach-la-Mar, the Jargon or Trade Speech of the Western Pacific'' (1911) * ''Easter Island, Rapanui Speech and the Peopling of Southeast Polynesia'' (1912) * ''The Subanu, Studies of a Sub-Visayan Mountain Folk of Mindanao'' (1913) ==References== 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Churchill (ethnologist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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