John Wickham Flower

Career Natural Historian / Archaeologist / Writer / Antiquarian / Businessman

Biography Lived in Croydon and studied geology and archaeology, very little is known of this collector. He is listed as giving a talk at the Surrey Archaeological Society in the Morning Chronicle of 6.7.1857 issue 28248. According to the Glasgow Herald of 24.3.1870 he was a Director of the Central Queensland Meat Preserving Company [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 16/01/2007]

Biography References Modern English Biography, Sarjeant 1980 / http://www.knowuk.co.uk/doc.do?categ_code=BIOG&SortType=relevance&ItemNumber=1&ResultsID=FD46E5D70DC / http://darwin.lib.cam.ac.uk/perl/nav?class=name;term=Flower%2C%20J.%20W. / http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=14920 / J. Wickham Flower, "Notices of an Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Farthing Down, Coulsdon, Surrey." Surrey Archaeological Collections 6, 1874, 109-117. 111

Clubs & Societies Geological Society / Palaeontographical Society / British Association for the Advancement of Science / Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society / Surrey Archaeological Society

County Too many counties to list

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner

Archaeological or Ethnographic EthnographyArchaeology

Dates active 1807-1873

Donated around 1892

English collections Stone weapons and tools, iron harpoon head, bone skate, lead spoon, vessels, metal axes, casts, 2 bells

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based No

English collection size 273

Connections Oxford University Museum of Natural History / Mrs John Wickham Flower