Steven or Stephen William Silver

Career Museum Professional / Natural Historian / Businessman

Biography All items from Silver were previously displayed at the private museum at the Silver home in Letcomb Manor, Wantage. After retiring from his business, Silver devoted himself to his collection and private museum. In the 1901 census he is described as Stephen William Silver aged 81 born in Cornhill, London and living in Letcombe Regis, Berkshire 'Freeholder' [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 26/02/2007]

Biography References http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0016-7398%28190504%2925%3A4%3C465%3AOSWS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-0 / Davies and Hull The Zoological Collections of the Oxford University Museum. 1976 / "A Historical Account of the Ashmolean Natural History Society 1880-1905" (1908) by Frank Arthur Bellamy / http://www.ourroots.ca/f/toc.asp?id=3025

Clubs & Societies Ashmolean [Natural History] Society / Linnean Society / Zoological Society / British Botanical Society / Royal Geographical Society

County Oxfordshire / London [Greater]

Relationship Other Owner

Archaeological or Ethnographic EthnographyArchaeology

Collected around 1905

Dates active 1819-1905

Donated around 1906

English collections Firearm, powder flask, stone tools and weapons, model hand fire-engine, pottery vessels

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based Yes

English collection size 14

Connections [Mrs] Steven William Silver / Oxford University Museum of Natural History