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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Individual's Details

William Buller Fagg

Career Anthropologist / Museum Professional

Biography From 1938 worked in the Ethnography department, British Museum, from 1945 he was responsible for the African collections, from 1969 to 1974 he was Keeper of the department. [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 29/01/2007]

Biography References http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/51030 / http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/fghij/fagg_william.html

Clubs & Societies Royal Anthropological Institute [& earlier manifestations] / Royal African Society / Museums Association

County Yorkshire

Relationship Other Owner

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1945

Dates active 1914-1992

Donated around 1996

English collections Drawing

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based No

English collection size 1

Connections Bernard Evelyn Buller Fagg / Mary Catherine Fagg / Leon Underwood