William Halse Rivers Rivers
English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist (1864-1922) · Academics · Died at 58
William Halse Rivers Rivers was an English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist known for treatment of First World War officers suffering shell shock. Rivers' most famous patient was the war poet Siegfried Sassoon, with whom he remained close friends until his own sudden death.
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Image of the stained glass window of the church in Offham, Kent, where Henry Rivers was curate from 1880 to 1889
Tonbridge School where Rivers and his brother Charles were day-boys
View of St John's College, Cambridge
Members of the 1898 Torres Straits Expedition. Standing (from left to right): Rivers, Seligman, Ray, Wilkin. Seated: HaddonAwards
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Academics
Type
Academic
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Deceased
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Lived 1864 to 1922 · aged 58
