Ernest Beaglehole
Ernest Beaglehole (25 August 1906 – 23 October 1965) was a New Zealand psychologist and ethnologist best known for his work in establishing an anthropological baseline for numerous Pacific Island cultures.[2] At Yale, Beaglehole met Peter Buck, a professor who "arranged for the Beagleholes to go to Pukapuka, a remote Northern Cook Islands atoll, as part of his comprehensive Pacific island ethnographic survey".Ernest Beaglehole was awarded a Doctorate in Letters in 1940, and in 1948 he was appointed chair of psychology and philosophy.[2] Two followed their parents into academia: their daughter Jane Ritchie became a full professor at the University of Waikato as an expert in child-raising.Their son David Beaglehole was a professor of physical electronics and Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.