ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN

Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Individuals that contributed to the Pitt Rivers Museum's English collections by size of collection

> Analysis 6

Individuals that contributed more than 100 objects to the Pitt Rivers Museum's English collections by size of collection

 

Name

Size of collection

Position

Dominated

by stone tools?

Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers

6,215

1

Alexander James Montgomerie Bell **

3,506

2

Yes

Henry Balfour

3,315

3

Archibald Colquhoun Bell **

3,242

4

Yes

Francis Howe Seymour Knowles

2,172

5

Yes

J.H. Tucker

1,381

6

Yes

Eustace Fulcrand Bosanquet

1,282

7

Yes

T.J. Carter

1,160

8

Damien Webb ***

?1,000

9

Anselm Cramer ***

?1,000

9

Catherine E. Parsons

828

10

Margaret F. Irvine

777

11

Albert Schwartz Barnes

773

12

Yes

James Reid Moir

766

13

Yes

[Miss] M.E. possibly Margaret Emily Bullock

648

14

Ellen Ettlinger

600

15

Beatrice Mary Blackwood

581

16

Sydney Gerald Hewlett

546

17

Yes

Edward Bagnall Poulton

520

18

Yes

Amy J. Nevell

511

19

Ronald William Poulton later known as Poulton-Palmer *

501

20

Yes

Margery Moseley *

500?

21

Yes

Emily Poulton *

500?

21

Yes

Janet Poulton *

500?

21

Yes

Margerat Poulton *

500?

21

Yes

Estella Louisa Michaela Canziani

473

22

Albert Tenyson Morley Hewitt

427

23

Yes

George Fabian Lawrence

407

24

George Rolleston

383

25

Mrs Griffin *******

370

26

Joseph James *******

370

26

Henry John Reynolds Moreton [3rd Earl of Ducie]

340

27

Yes

James Percy Tufnell Burchell

334

28

Yes

Edward Burnett Tylor ****

293

29

Francis Buckley

281

30

Yes

John Wickham Flower

273

31

Yes

Edward Buck

269

32

Margaret Buck

261

33

Anna Tylor ****

246

34

Mrs Hodgson

245

35

James Whitbred Lee Glaisher

229

36

Frederick Sharpe *****

224

37

Trustees of Frederick Sharpe *****

224

38

Unknown labourers

222

39

Yes

Fred Snare

221

40

Yes

Patience Watters

216

W. [could be William] Evetts

209

41

Yes

Constance Moreton Eversley

200

43

Yes

Percy Manning

199

44

Benjamin Harrison

189

45

Yes

Frederick George Hilton Price

182

46

Frederick William Robins

153

47

Miss J. Watters

153

48

H.C. Colvin-Smith

147

49

Mrs Colvin-Smith

147

49

Brenda Zara Seligman

145

50

Yes

Charles Gabriel Seligman

144

51

Yes

F.J. Brown

142

52

H.B. Gray

136

53

Joan Evans

134

54

John Bernard Calkin

133

55

Yes

Robert Sherlaw Johnson

133

55

William Wood

132

56

Beatrice Braithwaite Batty

124

57

S.G. Fenton

124

57

Violet Cecil Murray

119

58

Walter William Skeat ******

118

59

Walter William Skeat ******

118

59

Lina Dorina Johanna Eckenstein

117

60

Edward Lovett

114

61

Alfred Robinson

110

62

Henry George Ommaney Kendall

108

63

Yes

Bruce Morton Goldie

107

64

Yes

H. Dixon Hewitt

100

65

Yes

Helen Kemp

100?

65

Yes

Frank J. Rawlins

100?

65

Yes

*, **, ***, ****, *****, ******, ******* all linked to same objects in pairs

The stone tool column indicates when stone tools dominate or even totally comprise an individual's collection. It should be noted that such collections often have only estimates for the total number of objects, therefore the numbers given here may not be accurate.