ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN

Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Explore the database of all the people associated with the Pitt Rivers English collections. This gives information about their lives; their education, careers, place of residence, and their network of friends and colleagues. Select the first letter of their surname from the list below.

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Individuals

d'Almaine, Harry or Henry George William

D'Urban, William Stewart Mitchell

Dack, Charles

Dadley, William

Dale, William

Dallas, James S. [possibly Sweetland]

Dammann, Carl

Darbishire, Robert Dukinfield

Darling, Cathi

Darwin, Francis

Daveney, [Mr][full version unknown]

Davey, Drew

Davis, Anne Charlotte Vaughan

Davis, J.

Davis, Joseph Barnard

Davis Brothers & Co.

Davis or Davies, W.R.

Davis-Cooke, [Miss] G.

Daw, F.W.

Dawkins, William Boyd

De Alarcón, Marina

de Chroustchoff, Boris

de Vitre, J.D. [possibly John Durham Denis]

Debenham, Arthur W.

Delafield, William

Denham, Alfred

Dennis, G.H.

Dennison, Ann

Department of Earth Sciences Queen Mary College University of London

Dew, T.

Dew-Smith, Albert George

Dexion Limited

Diamond Match Co. Ltd

Dick, [Mrs] C.

Dickens, [Mrs] K.

Dickinson, Alfred Ernest

Dickinson, Cicely Frances

Dickinson, Enid May

Dickson, [Colonel] [full version unknown]

Dickson, [Mrs][full version unknown]

Didcot Girls' School

Dines, Henry George

Dipper, Andrew

Dixey, Charles Westell

Dixon and Sons, James

Docker, George

Dodd, [John?] [full version unknown]

Dodds, Theodore

Dorchester Weavers

Dorset Police Force

Dorsett, Edith

Dougan, Robert

Douglas, James Archibald

Dow, George

Dowler

Down Bros. Ltd

Downes, [Mrs] Roger Meaden

Downey, William and Daniel

Downs, Jane

Drennan in Japan

Druce, George Claridge

Drummond, James

Drummond, K.R.

Drummond, William Hamilton

Dryden, Henry Edward Leigh

Duffy, [full version unknown]

Dulcet, A.B.S.

Dunbar, M.J.

Dunn, William

Dupe, William

Durham, Mary Edith

Duvelleroy, [J. ]

Individual's Details

William Boyd Dawkins

Career Traveller / Natural Historian / Academic / Archaeologist

Biography Geologist and palaeontologist. From 1869 he was Curator of Natural History, Manchester Museum, later Lecturer in Geology at Owens College [later Manchester University] and then Professor of Geology until his retirement [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 08/01/2007]

Biography References http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32750 / Who was Who 2007

Clubs & Societies Geological Society / Royal Society / Athenaeum / British Association for the Advancement of Science / Society of Antiquaries / Somerset Archaeological & Natural History Society / Royal Anthropological Institute [& earlier manifestations]

County Somerset

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner

Archaeological or Ethnographic Archaeology

Collected around 1859-1863

Dates active 1837-1929

Donated around 1970

English collections Plaster cast of stone tool

Oxford Uni College Jesus College

Oxford Uni Education Yes

Oxford Uni date 1854-1860

Oxford based No

Date in Oxford 1854-1869

Portrait link http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32750

English collection size 1

Connections Edward Burnett Tylor / Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers / E. possibly Edward Augustus Freeman / John Campbell