Career ?Archaeologist / Museum Professional
Biography According to the Antiquities Department index cards, Ashmolean Museum Young was the restorer at the Ashmolean Museum circa 1900-1937. He made replicas of the Alfred Jewel. He is listed in the 1901 census as W.H. Young, aged 30, born in Middlesex London and living in St Giles, Oxford as a 'Plastic Art Restorer' [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 08/03/2007]
Biography References http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/sdk13/AlfJewel.html / http://www.jstor.org/view/00754269/ap020060/02a00110/0 / http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/manuscripts/search/detaild.cfm?DID=20331
County Norfolk
Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source
Archaeological or Ethnographic Archaeology
Collected around 1929
Dates active ?1871-? active 1900-1937
Donated around 1941
English collections Antler pick
Oxford Uni Education Unknown
Oxford based Yes
English collection size 1
Connections Albert Leslie Armstrong