Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford

Career Archaeologist / Academic

Biography Junior demonstrator, Department of Geography University of Oxford in 1911, in 1913 he set out on three year expedition to Easter Island with Mr and Mrs Scoresby Routledge but quarrelled with them and returned, in the same year he went to Sudan to work on the excavations of Henry Wellcome. He also excavated in England, after the war he became first archaeology officer for the Ordnance Survey, he held this post till his retirement in 1946. [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 05/01/2007]

Biography References http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32619 / http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/archives/biography.php?collectorID=ogscrawford / 'The man and his past' by J. L. Myres in Aspects of archaeology in Britain and beyond: essays presented to O. G. S. Crawford ed. W. F. Grimes (London: H. W. Edwards, 1951) / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osbert_Crawford / Who was Who 2007

Clubs & Societies Athenaeum / Antiquaries of Scotland / Prehistoric Society of East Anglia / Royal Geographical Society / Hampshire Field Naturalists Club / Royal Anthropological Institute [& earlier manifestations] / Oxford University Anthropological Society / British Academy

County Dorset / Somerset / Sussex / Hampshire and Isle of Wight

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic ArchaeologyEthnography

Dates active 1886-1957

Donated around 1957

English collections Stone beads, disc of flint, votive pins

Oxford Uni College Keble

Oxford Uni Education Yes

Oxford Uni date 1907-1910

Oxford based No

Date in Oxford 1907-1910

Portrait link http://antiquity.ac.uk/Listing/crawforded.html

English collection size 24

Connections Eliot Curwen / Eliot Cecil Curwen