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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S.G. Fenton and Company

Career Dealer

Biography NB also included as individual Note that some of these items are given by the individual, S.G. Fenton, and some by the company he owned. He was a dealer and auctioneer of ethnographic objects and worked in London from New Oxford Street, and Leicester Square. [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 10/04/2007]

County London [Greater] / Hertfordshire / Wiltshire

Relationship Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Archaeology Ethnography

Dates active Unknown

Donated around 1950

English collections Firearms, stone tools, bone skates, keys, fire piston

Institution Yes

Oxford based No

English collection size 115

Connections Beck? could be J. Beck / Catherine E. Parsons / Henry Balfour / James Whitbred Lee Glaisher / Frederick Arthur Crisp / Edmund Waterton