Henry Evans Maude, OBE (1 October 1906 – 4 November 2006) was a British Colonial Service administrator, historian and anthropologist.
[1] Educated at Highgate School from 1921 to 1925, and Jesus College, Cambridge, Maude represented India at rifle-shooting in 1926.
[3] During this time, Maude and his wife collected a great number of Polynesian archaeological items found on the Pitcairn Islands, later donated to the Auckland War Memorial Museum in New Zealand.
[1] He was the husband of Honor Courtney Maude (née King), a British-Australian authority on Oceanic string figures.
[1] The bulk of Maude's personal papers are held at the Barr Smith Library at the University of Adelaide, where an extensive set of pages devoted to his life and work can be found.