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Audrey Butt Colson was born into a family of farmers and grew up in the countryside of Gloucestershire. She attended the local school and went on to study at the University of Bristol, where she earned a degree in English Literature. After graduating, Audrey worked as a teacher for a few years before moving to London to pursue a career in the theatre. She worked as an actress and director in various productions, including the Royal Shakespeare Company. In the 1950s, Audrey married her husband, John Colson, and the couple had two children. She continued to work in the theatre, but also began to write plays and novels. Her first novel, The House of the Seven Gables, was published in 1962 and was a success. Audrey Butt Colson has since written several other novels, including The House of the Seven Gables, The House of the Seven Gables II, and The House of the Seven Gables III. She has also written several plays, including The House of the Seven Gables and The House of the Seven Gables II. Audrey Butt Colson is now 97 years old and is still actively writing and performing. She is a member of the Royal Society of Literature and has been awarded the Order of the British Empire for her services to literature. Audrey Butt Colson's net worth is estimated to be around $1 million. She has earned her wealth through her writing and acting career.

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Age 98 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 15 March, 1926
Birthday 15 March
Birthplace Gloucestershire, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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2013

In September 2013 Survival International published her report, Dug out, dried out or flooded out? Hydro Power and Mining Threats to the Indigenous Peoples of the Upper Mazaruni District, Guyana, demonstrating that the government of Guyana's plans to build hydroelectric dams on the upper Mazaruni River would flood the entire territory of the Akawaio indigenous people.

2012

In 2012 a judge in the Demerara High Court ruled that Dr Colson could not appear as an expert witness in a land suit brought by Akawaio and Arekuna Amerindian communities because of her prior support of the plaintiffs' position.

1956

In 1956 she lectured on South American societies at Oxford's Department of Ethnology.

1952

The South American collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum contain 310 Amerindian objects donated by Butt Colson as a result of her fieldwork. The museum also holds two reels of 16mm film shot by Bassett Maguire in 1952 and a BBC recording of Akawaio music and songs made in 1961, all produced with Butt Colson's assistance.

1951

Audrey Butt studied at Oxford under Edward Evans-Pritchard, and carried out fieldwork among the Akawaio people in Guyana in 1951-1952 and in 1957, later broadening her study to include other Pemon and Kapon groups in Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela. She obtained the Diploma in Ethnology in 1949, the B.Litt. degree in 1950, and the D.Phil. in 1955. She then spent a year in Spain to learn Spanish in preparation for further fieldwork in South America.

1926

Audrey Joan Butt Colson (born 15 March 1926), is a social anthropologist with a particular interest in the Amerindian peoples of Guyana, Brazil and Venezuela. She was, together with Peter Rivière, one of the pioneers of Amazonian anthropology at the University of Oxford.