Walter William Skeat

Career Academic / Linguist

Biography Possibly field collector of this material, though it might have been his son of the same name [qv]. It has not been confirmed that this WW Skeat had any connections to the English collections at the PRM Philologist, fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 26/02/2007]

Biography References http://homepage.ntlworld.com/verran/sights/southeastasia.html / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_William_Skeat

Clubs & Societies British Academy / English Dialect Society / Folklore Society / Royal Anthropological Institute [& earlier manifestations]

County Hertfordshire / Yorkshire / Hampshire and Isle of Wight / Norfolk

Relationship Field Collector / Compiler / Other Owner

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1940 / 1943 or by 1912

Dates active 1835-1912?

Donated around 1940 / 1943

English collections Pitch pipe, ceremonial cakes made in human form, sickles or reaping-hooks, miller's tally, for scoring up sacks of flour, wooden trenchers, horn drinking cups, wooden model of ducking-stool, costrils, tobacco dispensing machine

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based No

English collection size 118

Connections Walter William Skeat / Thomas & Joseph Hutton