Lincesal Robert Leslie Acutt (abt. 1896 - 1964)

Born about 1896 in Durban, Colony of Natal, British Colony

Ancestors

Died 7 Aug 1964 at about age 68 in Durban, Natal, South Africa

Biography

Lynn Acutt (b. Durban, **/**/1890 – d. 07/08/1964) was a photographer and filmmaker.

ACUTT, Lincesal Robert Leslie. Born 1896 in Durban. Educated at Durban High School. Only son of E. L. Acutt C. M. G. Married, 1920, to Mary Hamilton, daughter of Willoughby Methley, of Balgowan. Two children. Partner of Messrs. Zurcher & Acutt for 10 years. Now sole proprietor of "Lynn Acutt's Photo House", West Street. Residence, 26 Wallace Road, Durban^[1]

Born to Ernest Leslie Acutt, a prominent local businessman and a future mayor of Durban (1901/02), and his wife Madeline Churchill Gillespie, Lincesal Robert Leslie Acutt was a Natal-based photographer who also made a number of documentary films and worked on a freelance basis for the newsreel African Mirror. A member of one of Durban's oldest families, he turned what was originally a hobby into his work and established a photographic business at 343 West Street in Durban. Many of his interesting ethnographic studies survive in museum and university collections or in the form of postcards, as well as in books published at the time. During World War II, Captain Acutt became the official photographer at HMS Assegai, a naval shore base that served as a transit camp and training establishment at Wentworth. This was later extended to include all the facilities of H.M. Forces, the South African Army and the South African Railways & Harbours at the port.^[2][3]

Sources

1. ↑ Who’s Who in Natal, with which is incorporated Women of Natal, 1933, The Knox Printing & Publishing Company, Durban. Rider Fraser Olsen, Editor, February 1934
2. ↑ https://esat.sun.ac.za/index.php/Lynn_Acutt
3. ↑ Miller, Yvonne - Acutts in Africa