ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN

Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Explore the database of all the people associated with the Pitt Rivers English collections. This gives information about their lives; their education, careers, place of residence, and their network of friends and colleagues. Select the first letter of their surname from the list below.

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Individual's Details

Frederick Thomas Elworthy

Career Antiquarian / Traveller / Linguist

Biography Resident of Wellington, Somerset according to accession records, presumably knew Edward Burnett Tylor. Interested in the dialect and antiquities of western Somerset and east Devon [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 11/01/2007]

Biography References http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33020

Clubs & Societies Somerset Archaeological & Natural History Society / Society of Antiquaries / ?Athenaeum / British Association for the Advancement of Science / Folklore Society / Royal Anthropological Institute [& earlier manifestations]

County Somerset / Dorset / London [Greater] / Cornwall / Devon / Lincolnshire / Oxfordshire

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography Photographs

Collected around 1903

Dates active 1830-1907

Donated around Up to 1968

Owned -1907

English collections Amulets

Oxford Uni Education Unknown

Oxford based No

English collection size 34

Connections Florence Peacock / Edward Lovett / R. Buonand / Henry Balfour / Robert Knight / William de Courcy Prideaux / Somerset County Museum, Taunton / Somerset Archaeological Society / Maria Elworthy