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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Individuals

Gabriel

Gadney, Robert

Gage-Brown, [Miss] E.E.

Galbraith, Joseph Allen

Galpin, [Miss] [full version unknown]

Gamble, [Mrs] C.

Gamlen, John Charles Blagdon

Gamlen, W.H. probably William Blagdon

Garrett

Garrod, Dorothy Anne Elizabeth

Gaskell, [Mr] [probably Henry Brooks]

Gatty, Reginald Alfred

Gaultier SA, Jean Paul

Gee, Hugh

Geology Department Oxford University Museum of Natural History

George, B.

Gerock, Christopher

Gerock and Wolf

Gerrard and Sons, Edward

Gibbs, Emmanuel

Gibbs, Hubert L.

Gibbs, J.

Gibson & Sons Penzance

Gilbert

Gill, C.M.

Gill, T. possibly Thomas but also given in some sources as John

Gill, T. possibly Thomas but also given in some sources as John

Gillard, [Mrs][full version unknown]

Gillman and Soame

Gills London

Gilmour, Joanna

Gladding, B.

Gladding, D.

Glaisher, James Whitbread Lee

Glastonbury Antiquarian Society

Glendining's Auction Rooms

Gloucester Museum

Glover, George

Glover, [full version unknown]

Goble, Elizabeth

Goddard, Cecil Vincent

Goddard, [Mrs][full version unknown]

Godeffroy Museum Hamburg

Godfrey, Frank

Godwin, [Miss] O. [possibly Olive]

Goldie, Bruce Morton

Golightly, Charles Pourtales

Golightly, [Miss][full version unknown]

Goodhall [Goodall?], George

Goodlad

Gordon, Roderick W.

Goulding & Dalmaine or D'Almaine

Grace, Pamela

Grafton, Charles

Grafton, Ellen

Grafton, Mary

Graham, Archibald

Graham, William

Gray, Allan [or Alan]

Gray, Campbell

Gray, Florence Harriet

Gray, H.B.

Gray, Harold St. George

Gray, [full version unknown][Mr]

Great grandfather of Miss J. Watters surname unknown, [Mr] [Full name unknown]

Green, Charles

Green, Ernest J.

Green, [Mrs] [Ernest J.] [full version unknown]

Greener, W.W.

Greenhill, James [or Joseph?]

Greenwell, William

Gregory, H.G. probably Henry G.

Gregory, J.R.

Gregory, Roger

Grensted, Laurence William

Griffin, [Mrs][full version unknown]

Griffin, [Mr][full version unknown]

Griffith, Arthur Foster

Griffith, Francis Llewellyn

Griffiths, W.F.G.

Grimsley, F.

Grisewood, [Mrs][full version unknown]

Groom, Percy

Grose, [full version unknown][Mr]

Grose, [Miss] L.C.

Guehl

Guest, Edith Mary

Gulliver, N.

Gunther, Albert Everard

Gunther, Robert William Theodore

Gurney, R.

Gurr, L. [possibly Louis]

Gwent Police Force

Gwynn, William

Gyles, Eleanor

Individual's Details

Robert William Theodore Gunther

Career Museum Professional / Antiquarian / Natural Historian

Biography Academic natural historian, in 1924 he opened the old Ashmolean building as the Museum of the History of Science [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 23/01/2007]

Biography References http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33610 / Who was Who 2007

Clubs & Societies Linnean Society / Royal Geographical Society / British Association for the Advancement of Science / Zoological Society / Oxford Architectural & Historical / Athenaeum

County Too many counties to list

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1940

Dates active 1869-1940

Donated around 1940

English collections Leather shot-pouch, machine for turning-in the open end of pin-fire cartridges, felt wads, measure for gun-powder charges, measure for shot-charges, spectacles with metal frame and glass lenses, quartzite pounder, flint specimens, stone tools, symbolic purse which hangs from proctor's gown, fragment of 'greybeard' pottery showing a coat of arms, revolver, fans

Oxford Uni Education Yes

Oxford Uni date 1886-1892

Oxford based Yes

Date in Oxford 1886-1940

Portrait link http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33610

English collection size 221?

Connections Albert Everard Gunther / Eustace Neville Rolfe / Hermann Gunther / William and Charles Eley, Eley Bros. Limited / G. & J.W. Hawksley / E.M. Reilly and Co