Henry Edward Abrams

Career Dealer

Biography Dealer who dealt in 'antique and high class furniture' with a shop (called a warehouse) at 44 Broad Street, Oxford. At one time he worked for G.R. and F. Cambray, Broad Street, Oxford.Sold objects to Pitt Rivers Museum in 1898, 1902, 1903, 1906 (the objects from England came in 1903)[Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 30/11/2006]

Biography References www.headington.org.uk/oxon/broad/buildings/north/new_bodleian/44.htm / "Provenance: Twelve collectors of ethnographic art in England 1760-1990" H Waterfield and JCH King Somogy Art Publishers Barbier-Mueller Museum 2006 p 52-53

County Hampshire and Isle of Wight / London [Greater] / Oxfordshire

Relationship Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around Unknown

Dates active Unknown, active 1903-1920

Donated around 1903 and by 1921

Owned 1903

English collections 2 fifes and a flute (all musical instruments), he was one of a long string of connections between John Simmonds being born with a caul in around 1830, his nephew (Abrams) obtaining the object, Percy Maning then donated the object via A. Manning to the museum

Oxford Uni Education Unknown

Oxford based Yes

Date in Oxford Around 1903, probably for life

English collection size 4

Connections G.R. Cambray / F. Cambray / Percy Manning / John Simmonds / [Presumably Henry Balfour] / O. Cecconi / Gerock and Wolf / A. Manning / ?Arthur Ernest Cowley / Bodleian Library / Gerock and Wolf