![]() In association with the museum, he traveled to Nigeria to collect artifacts, and this work led him to be named honorary surveyor of antiquities from 1956 to 1957 by the Nigerian government. After serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II, he was hired by the University of Manchester Museum as keeper of the department of ethnology and general archeology. Noted as a specialist in West African civilizations, Willett was a university professor and first director of the University of Glasgow's Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery. Anthropologist, archaeologist, educator, museum curator, and author. See index for CA sketch: Born August 18, 1925, in Bolton, Lancashire, England died June 15, 2006. WILLETT, Frank 1925-2006 OBITUARY NOTICE. ![]()
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