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 EthnographyPhotographs

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