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Edward Nicholson

Career Manufacturer / Trader

Biography Firearm manufacturer. According to the website below 'Edward Nicholson was apprenticed to Robert Silke in 1668, elected Master of the Gunmaker's Company in 1697, contractor to Ordnance 1687-11, East India Company 1700, Hudson's Bay Company 1687-1712.' [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 19/02/2007]

Biography References http://www.peterfiner.com/Search/ItemDetails.asp?ItemID=119

County No counties listed

Relationship Maker

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1874

Date made around Before 1874

Dates active Unknown, active 1668-1712

Donated around 1884

English collections Blunderbuss

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based No

English collection size 1

Connections Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers

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