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

Abbot's Parlour

Abingdon Museum

Abrams, Henry Edward

Accum & Garden London

Acland, Henry Wentworth

Acland, William Allison Dyke

Acland Hospital

Acme Whistles

Acott and Company Ltd. , Sydney

Adair, Henry

Adams, Harold T. (possibly Harold Thomas)

Adams , Robert

Adams Trading Co Ltd., John

Addy, Sidney Oldall

Adelaide, Queen [of Saxe-Meiningen] [Adelheid Amalie Luise Therese Caroline]

Adler, Hermann

Aitken, Mr [Unknown first name]

Aked, George Dixon

Aldred

Alexander, [Mrs][full version unknown]

Alfieri Picture Service

Allan, William

Allchin, Basil Charles

Allchin, E. probably Emma

Allchin, Gwladys Marguerite

Allchin, Jane Ann

Allchin, Louisa

Allcock and Co., [Samuel]

Allen, George W.G.

Allen, Ivor Michael

Allen, John Romilly

Allen , [full version unknown]

Allen's of Oxford

Allison, Harry

Ambler, Gifford

Ampleforth Abbey

Anderson, William Cliffe Foley

Andrade, Cyril A.

Andrade , Reginald

Annandale, Thomas Nelson

Anscombe, [Mrs] B.L.

Anson, William Reynell

Anstee, John

Anthropological Institute

Anthropological Society

Antique and Modern Furnishing Company

Apperley, [family]

Archer, S.

Archer-Houblon family, [full version unknown]

Arkell, Anthony John

Arkell, Daniel J.

Armourer's Company

Armstrong, Albert Leslie

Army and Navy C.S.L.

Arnett family, [full version unknown]

Arnold & Sons

Arnold Museum

Arnolds

Arrowsmith, P.O.

Artley?, [full version unknown]

Ashmolean Museum

Ashmolean Museum Heberden Coin Room

Ashton, F.W.

Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd.

Aston and Mander London

Astor, George or Georg

Astor and Co. / Astor and Horwood [same address], George

Atkinson, John Christopher

Attwells Birchfield Co. Ltd

Austen, Amy

Aveling, Stephen Thomas

Aveling, Thomas William Baxter

Avery , William and Thomas

Avon and Somerset Police Force

Ayres , F.H.

Ayrton, [Miss][full version unknown]

Individual's Details

William and Thomas Avery

Career Manufacturer

Biography 'William and Thomas Avery were relatives of Joseph Balden, and inherited his scalemaking business when he died in 1813. The firm was known as W&T Avery from about 1818 onwards. The name is seen on coin and apothecaries weights of the 1840's. By 1885 they had three factories: the Atlas Works in West Bromwich, the Mill Lane works in Birmingham, and the Moat Lane Works, Digbeth, also in Birmingham. The firm became a public limited liability company in 1894, and moved to the famous Soho Foundry in 1897. They set up branches in many towns (e.g. 29 Exchange Street, Sheffield, from 1897), and gradually took over many other firms in the scalemaking trade, in some cases retaining the original name. The business was itself taken over by GEC in 1979. In 1993 GEC also aquired the Berkel company, and the Avery-Berkel name was introduced. In 2000, the business was aquired by the US company Weigh-Tronix, who already owned Salter, and became known as Avery Weigh-Tronix, whose web site is http://www.averyweigh-tronix.com/. Avery weights referring to places other than Birmingham are scarce.' [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 20/04/2007]

Biography References http://home.clara.net/brianp/namesad.html

County Gloucestershire

Relationship Maker

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Dates active Unknown

Donated around 1949

English collections Steelyard

Institution Yes

Oxford based No

English collection size 1

Connections F.W. Daw / Charles Overy