Tremearne was born in Melbourne in 1877, son of Ada Tremearne, of Melbourne, Australia, and John Tremearne MRCS. He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge.
He was a lieutenant in the Second Boer War, but was invalided to England on 1 June 1900. He was struck off field strength on joining the Ashanti Field Force.[1]He married Mary Louisa Tremearne, from Blackheath, London, in 1905.
He was a masonic deacon in the Royal Colonial Institute No. 3556 E.C. lodge.[2]
He died at the Battle of Loos.[3] He left an estate of £4638 5/6. There is a memorial;.
Head measuring device
In 1913 Tremearne developed a head-measuring device, which was modified with suggestions from Karl Pearson.
Publications
The tailed head-hunters of Nigeria: an account of an official's seven years experiences in the Northern Nigerian Pagan Belt; and a description of the manners, habits, and customs of the native tribes. London (1912)
Hausa superstitions and customs: an introduction to the Folk-Lore and the Folk. London (1913). Als PDF (62 MB)
Some Austral-African notes and anecdotes. John Bale Sons & Danielsson, London (1913)
The Ban of the Bori. Demons and demon-dancing in West and North-Africa. London (1914)
Chapter in Georg Buschan's Die Sitten der Völker. Bd. 2, Union Deutsche Verlagsges., Stuttgart um 1920
References
^"TREMEARNE, ARTHUR JOHN NEWMAN - Boer War Dossier | Discovering Anzacs | National Archives of Australia and Archives NZ". 13 September 1992.
^"Arthur John Newman TREMEARNE".
^Haddon, A. C. (December 1915). "Obituary – Major A. J. N. Tremearne" . Folk-Lore. 26. Folk-Lore Society: 431–432 – via Wikisource. [scan]