Florence Joy Weldon

Career Unknown

Biography Florence Weldon (née Tebb) was the wife of (Walter Frank) Raphael Weldon, zoologist, biometrician and statistician. He held the Linacre Chair of Comparative Anatomy at Oxford, 1899-1906. Florence Weldon accompanied Raphael on his research trips, working with him on the data. She survived him by 30 years, leaving her estate to found the Weldon Chair of Biometry at UCL on her death in 1936. [Katy Barrett 29/08/2007]

Biography References http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/36823/36823?back=,36823,28994 / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Frank_Raphael_Weldon / http://www.1901censusonline.com / K. Pearson, 'Walter Frank Raphael Weldon 1860-1906', Biometrika, Vol. 5, No. 1/2. (Oct., 1906), pp.1-52 / http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Weldon.html

Clubs & Societies British Association for the Advancement of Science

County Sussex

Relationship Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic ArchaeologyEthnography

Collected around 1927

Dates active c 1858-1936

Donated around 1927

English collections Powder flask, copper bowl, compass, child's cap

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based Yes

Date in Oxford 1899-?1936

English collection size 5