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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Francis Gerald William Knowles

Career Academic / Natural Historian / Teacher

Biography Biologist, biology teacher at Marlborough College, later taught at Birmingham University, Professor of Comparative Endocrinology at Birmingham and later Professor of Anatomy at Kings College, London. Son of Francis Howe Seymour Knowles [qv] [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 05/02/2007]

Biography References http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/31321 / Who was Who 2007

Clubs & Societies Athenaeum / Oxford University Anthropological Society / Royal Society

County Sussex / Devon / Oxfordshire / Berkshire

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Archaeology Other

Collected around 1953

Dates active 1915-1974

Donated around 1953

English collections Stone tools

Oxford Uni College Oriel College

Oxford Uni Education Yes

Oxford Uni date 1932-1939

Oxford based No

Date in Oxford 1932-1939

English collection size 5

Connections Francis Howe Seymour Knowles