Edward Bagnall Poulton

Career Academic / Natural Historian / Museum Professional

Biography Zoologist, worked at University Museum of Natural History, Oxford from 1876 when he was appointed a Demonstrator in Comparative Anatomy. Appointed Hope Professor of Zoology in 1893. [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 21/02/2007]

Biography References http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35586 / Who was Who 2007 / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bagnall_Poulton

Clubs & Societies Royal Society / Ashmolean [Natural History] Society / Geological Society / Athenaeum

County Hampshire and Isle of Wight / Oxfordshire

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic ArchaeologyEthnographyOtherPhotographs

Collected around 1930

Dates active 1856-1943

Donated around 1930

English collections Collection dominated by large stone tool collection from Priory Bay, Isle of Wight, but also contains firearms and religious hat, and pins found in St Margarets Well Binsey, photograph of William John Burchell [qv]

Oxford Uni College Jesus College, Fellow Jesus and Keble colleges,

Oxford Uni Education Yes

Oxford Uni date 1873 - 1876

Oxford based Yes

Date in Oxford 1873 - 1943

English collection size 520

Connections Edward Burnett Tylor / William Ford Poulton / Arthur Young / Ronald William Poulton later known as Ronald William Poulton-Palmer / Margery Moseley / Emily Poulton / Margaret Poulton / Janet Poulton / Helen Kemp / James Veisey and Co. or Veisey and Son / Anna Burchell / M. & N. Hanhart