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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John Wickham Flower

Career Natural Historian / Archaeologist / Writer / Antiquarian / Businessman

Biography Lived in Croydon and studied geology and archaeology, very little is known of this collector. He is listed as giving a talk at the Surrey Archaeological Society in the Morning Chronicle of 6.7.1857 issue 28248. According to the Glasgow Herald of 24.3.1870 he was a Director of the Central Queensland Meat Preserving Company [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 16/01/2007]

Biography References Modern English Biography, Sarjeant 1980 / http://www.knowuk.co.uk/doc.do?categ_code=BIOG&SortType=relevance&ItemNumber=1&ResultsID=FD46E5D70DC / http://darwin.lib.cam.ac.uk/perl/nav?class=name;term=Flower%2C%20J.%20W. / http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=14920 / J. Wickham Flower, "Notices of an Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Farthing Down, Coulsdon, Surrey." Surrey Archaeological Collections 6, 1874, 109-117. 111

Clubs & Societies Geological Society / Palaeontographical Society / British Association for the Advancement of Science / Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society / Surrey Archaeological Society

County Too many counties to list

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography Archaeology

Dates active 1807-1873

Donated around 1892

English collections Stone weapons and tools, iron harpoon head, bone skate, lead spoon, vessels, metal axes, casts, 2 bells

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based No

English collection size 273

Connections Oxford University Museum of Natural History / Mrs John Wickham Flower