Individuals that contributed more than 100 objects to the Pitt Rivers Museum's English collections by size of collection
|
Name |
Size of collection |
Position |
Dominated by stone tools? |
|
Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers |
6,215 |
1 |
|
|
Alexander James Montgomerie Bell ** |
3,506 |
2 |
Yes |
|
Henry Balfour |
3,315 |
3 |
|
|
Archibald Colquhoun Bell ** |
3,242 |
4 |
Yes |
|
Francis Howe Seymour Knowles |
2,172 |
5 |
Yes |
|
J.H. Tucker |
1,381 |
6 |
Yes |
|
Eustace Fulcrand Bosanquet |
1,282 |
7 |
Yes |
|
T.J. Carter |
1,160 |
8 |
|
|
Damien Webb *** |
?1,000 |
9 |
|
|
Anselm Cramer *** |
?1,000 |
9 |
|
|
Catherine E. Parsons |
828 |
10 |
|
|
Margaret F. Irvine |
777 |
11 |
|
|
Albert Schwartz Barnes |
773 |
12 |
Yes |
|
James Reid Moir |
766 |
13 |
Yes |
|
[Miss] M.E. possibly Margaret Emily Bullock |
648 |
14 |
|
|
Ellen Ettlinger |
600 |
15 |
|
|
Beatrice Mary Blackwood |
581 |
16 |
|
|
Sydney Gerald Hewlett |
546 |
17 |
Yes |
|
Edward Bagnall Poulton |
520 |
18 |
Yes |
|
Amy J. Nevell |
511 |
19 |
|
|
Ronald William Poulton later known as Poulton-Palmer * |
501 |
20 |
Yes |
|
Margery Moseley * |
500? |
21 |
Yes |
|
Emily Poulton * |
500? |
21 |
Yes |
|
Janet Poulton * |
500? |
21 |
Yes |
|
Margerat Poulton * |
500? |
21 |
Yes |
|
Estella Louisa Michaela Canziani |
473 |
22 |
|
|
Albert Tenyson Morley Hewitt |
427 |
23 |
Yes |
|
George Fabian Lawrence |
407 |
24 |
|
|
George Rolleston |
383 |
25 |
|
|
Mrs Griffin ******* |
370 |
26 |
|
|
Joseph James ******* |
370 |
26 |
|
|
Henry John Reynolds Moreton [3rd Earl of Ducie] |
340 |
27 |
Yes |
|
James Percy Tufnell Burchell |
334 |
28 |
Yes |
|
Edward Burnett Tylor **** |
293 |
29 |
|
|
Francis Buckley |
281 |
30 |
Yes |
|
John Wickham Flower |
273 |
31 |
Yes |
|
Edward Buck |
269 |
32 |
|
|
Margaret Buck |
261 |
33 |
|
|
Anna Tylor **** |
246 |
34 |
|
|
Mrs Hodgson |
245 |
35 |
|
|
James Whitbred Lee Glaisher |
229 |
36 |
|
|
Frederick Sharpe ***** |
224 |
37 |
|
|
Trustees of Frederick Sharpe ***** |
224 |
38 |
|
|
Unknown labourers |
222 |
39 |
Yes |
|
Fred Snare |
221 |
40 |
Yes |
|
Patience Watters |
216 |
4§ |
|
|
W. [could be William] Evetts |
209 |
41 |
Yes |
|
Constance Moreton Eversley |
200 |
43 |
Yes |
|
Percy Manning |
199 |
44 |
|
|
Benjamin Harrison |
189 |
45 |
Yes |
|
Frederick George Hilton Price |
182 |
46 |
|
|
Frederick William Robins |
153 |
47 |
|
|
Miss J. Watters |
153 |
48 |
|
|
H.C. Colvin-Smith |
147 |
49 |
|
|
Mrs Colvin-Smith |
147 |
49 |
|
|
Brenda Zara Seligman |
145 |
50 |
Yes |
|
Charles Gabriel Seligman |
144 |
51 |
Yes |
|
F.J. Brown |
142 |
52 |
|
|
H.B. Gray |
136 |
53 |
|
|
Joan Evans |
134 |
54 |
|
|
John Bernard Calkin |
133 |
55 |
Yes |
|
Robert Sherlaw Johnson |
133 |
55 |
|
|
William Wood |
132 |
56 |
|
|
Beatrice Braithwaite Batty |
124 |
57 |
|
|
S.G. Fenton |
124 |
57 |
|
|
Violet Cecil Murray |
119 |
58 |
|
|
Walter William Skeat ****** |
118 |
59 |
|
|
Walter William Skeat ****** |
118 |
59 |
|
|
Lina Dorina Johanna Eckenstein |
117 |
60 |
|
|
Edward Lovett |
114 |
61 |
|
|
Alfred Robinson |
110 |
62 |
|
|
Henry George Ommaney Kendall |
108 |
63 |
Yes |
|
Bruce Morton Goldie |
107 |
64 |
Yes |
|
H. Dixon Hewitt |
100 |
65 |
Yes |
|
Helen Kemp |
100? |
65 |
Yes |
|
Frank J. Rawlins |
100? |
65 |
Yes |
*, **, ***, ****, *****, ******, ******* all linked to same objects in pairs
The stone tool column indicates when stone tools dominate or even totally comprise an individual's collection. It should be noted that such collections often have only estimates for the total number of objects, therefore the numbers given here may not be accurate.