Sonia Mary Cole

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Sonia Mary Cole
Born Sonia Mary Myers
1919 (1919)
Westminster, London, England
Died 1982 (aged 62–63)
Fields Anthropology, archaeology, geology
Institutions British Museum

Sonia Mary Cole (née Myers)[1] (1918 – 1982) was an English geologist, archaeologist, anthropologist and author.

Biography

Sonia Cole was born Sonya Syers in Westminster, London,[2] her mother marrying the 5th Earl of Enniskillen as her second husband, and Sonia herself marrying his nephew, the 6th Earl. Cole worked for the British Museum, and conducted extensive fieldwork in Africa. She was a close friend and colleague of Mary Leakey, who wrote her obituary.[3]

David Lowry Cole, 6th Earl of Enniskillen (1918–1989) was divorced from his first wife Sonia in 1955. By her, he had issue one son and one daughter.[4]

Cole is most remembered for her work Races of Man, which drew heavily from Carleton Coon.[5]

Works

  • An Outline of the Geology of Kenya (1950)
  • The Prehistory of East Africa (1954, 2nd ed. 1958, rev. ed. 1964)
  • Races of Man (1963, 2nd ed. 1965)
  • The Neolithic Age (1970)
  • Leakey's Luck (1975)

References

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  4. ↑ Patrick Cracroft-Brennan. Enniskillen, Earl of (Ireland, 1789) Archived 2012-05-19 at the Wayback Machine, cracroftspeerage.co.uk; retrieved 5 January 2013.
    The Enniskillen entry is somewhat outdated, in showing Arthur Gerald Cole still alive in 2013; he died in 2005, and his son Berkeley is the present heir presumptive.
  5. ↑ "Review: Races of Man", Stanley M. Garn, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 65, No. 6, Dec., 1963, pp. 1410-1411.

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