There are a total of 399 individuals / groups of individuals / companies associated with the Oxfordshire collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum up to 2007.
Of these, 275 lived for all, or a significant part, of their lives in Oxfordshire [69 per cent]. 97 [24 per cent] lived elsewhere, and 35 [9 per cent] have unknown addresses. A very high percentage, unsurprisingly, lived in the county from which they donated objects.
53 of the 399 are known to have been educated at Oxford University [13 per cent]. This proportion seems quite low, but shows that student links to the University are, perhaps, less important than one might think as determinants for where objects might be given to. In other words, geographical proximity seems more important then where a person was educated, as a reason to collect and / or donate Oxfordshire objects to the Museum. The low percentage also reflects the relative lack of knowledge about most individuals educational background
|
Decade |
Number of PRM sources associated with Oxon. collections donated in that decade |
Total number of objects donated that decade from Oxfordshire |
Average number of objects per PRM Sources |
Range of number of objects per PRM Source [NB not just that decade] |
Number of PRM sources who gave one object only in that decade |
% of all Oxon. PRM Sources that decade which gave 1 object |
|
1880s |
13 |
164 |
13 |
1 - 73 |
8 |
62% |
|
1890s |
24 |
572 |
24 |
1- 1,145 |
8 |
33% |
|
1900s |
38 |
1,570 |
41 |
1- 1,145 |
16 |
42% |
|
1910s |
30 |
651 |
22 |
1 - 823 |
15 |
50% |
|
1920s |
22 |
1,447 |
66 |
1 - 1,157 |
9 |
41% |
|
1930s |
30 |
358 |
12 |
1 - 84 |
17 |
57% |
|
1940s |
46 |
576 |
13 |
1 - 117 |
9 |
20% |
|
1950s |
25 |
126 |
5 |
1 - 85 |
9 |
36% |
|
1960s |
13 |
91 |
7 |
1 - 85 |
8 |
62% |
|
1970s |
7 |
8 |
1 |
1 - 17 |
4 |
57% |
|
1980s |
7 |
148 |
21 |
1 - 31 |
3 |
43% |
|
1990s |
12 |
48 |
4 |
1 - 19 |
6 |
50% |
|
2000s |
18 |
145 |
8 |
1 - 34 |
8 |
44% |
|
Total |
281 |
5,903 |
21 |
1 - 1,157 |
120 |
43% |
NB all figures have been rounded where appropriate
Clearly a large number of donors give only one object [a range usually from around 40 to 60 per cent with one extreme being only 20 per cent in the 1940s, which was a peak of collecting in Oxfordshire and a maximum of 62 per cent in the first decade of collecting in the 1880s and the 1960s.
1880s 29
1890s 32
1900s 56
1910s 51
1920s 31
1930s 52
1940s 76
1950s 32
1960s 18
1970s 10
1980s 15
1990s 20
2000s 33
1880s 164
1890s 572
1900s 1,570
1910s 651
1920s 1,447
1930s 358
1940s 576
1950s 126
1960s 121
1970s 8
1980s 148
1990s 48
2000s 145
| Decade | Number of individuals. groups & companies associated with Oxon. collections donated in that decade | Number of PRM sources associated with Oxon. collections donated in that decade | Total number of objects donated that decade from Oxfordshire |
| 1880s | 29 | 13 | 164 |
| 1890s | 32 | 24 | 572 |
| 1900s | 57 | 39 | 1,570 |
| 1910s | 50 | 30 | 651 |
| 1920s | 31 | 22 | 1,447 |
| 1930s | 52 | 29 | 358 |
| 1940s | 76 | 45 | 576 |
| 1950s | 32 | 24 | 126 |
| 1960s | 18 | 12 | 121 |
| 1970s | 10 | 7 | 8 |
| 1980s | 15 | 7 | 148 |
| 1990s | 20 | 12 | 48 |
| 2000s | 33 | 17 | 145 |