J.T. Long

Career Museum Professional

Biography Henry Balfour's museum assistant in post between 1884 and 1898 at the Pitt Rivers Museum. Moved to the Anatomical Department at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History in 1898. According to the OUMNH Annual Report 1918: 5 he died in 1918 after 30 years service as a Laboratory Assistant in the Department of Human Anatomy [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 07/02/2007]

Biography References OUMNH Annual Report 1918: 5

County Oxfordshire

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1897

Dates active ?-1918, active 1887-1898

Donated around 1897

English collections Wooden backscratcher used [sic] at fairs in England, two potatoes carried by Mr Burgess in 1897 as a cure for rheumatism, piece of ivory used as a rest upon which to file pins into shape.

Oxford Uni Education Unknown

Oxford based Yes

Date in Oxford 18887-1897

English collection size 4

Connections Henry Balfour / William Burgess