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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Francis Howe Seymour Knowles

Career Anthropologist / Archaeologist / Museum Professional

Biography Fifth baronet. Studied at Oxford, and one of the first Diploma in Anthropology students. Because of ill-health he was forced to give up work in Canada and volunteered at the Pitt Rivers Museum for many years where he specialised in stone tool technology but also catalogued many objects in the collection. [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 05/02/2007]

Biography References 'Obituary : Sir Francis Knowles: 1886-1953', Man, June 1953, n. 127, pp. 88-89 / Who was Who 2007 / ISCA Diploma Register

Clubs & Societies Royal Anthropological Institute [& earlier manifestations] / Oxford University Anthropological Society

County Suffolk / Bedfordshire / Sussex / Norfolk / Oxfordshire

Relationship Maker / Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Archaeology Other Ethnography Photographs

Collected around 1949

Dates active 1886-1953

Donated around 1953

Owned 1904-1953

English collections Mostly stone tools, photographic album

Oxford Uni College Oriel College

Oxford Uni Education Yes

Oxford Uni date 1904? - 1908

Oxford based Yes

Date in Oxford ?1904 - 1912 ?191? - 1953

Portrait link Museum http://www.civilization.ca/aborig/jaillir/jaillfkf.html

English collection size 2172

Connections Henry Balfour / Albert James Alroy Symons / William Spalding / Victor Robert Edwards / Alfred Schwartz Barnes / Marlborough College