Rowland Percy Somerset Elderton

Career Army

Biography Served in Egyptian Army, 1903-25, resident of Newbury, Berkshire according to accession records [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 29/01/2007]

Biography References 1901 census / Rachael Sparks, University College, London

County No counties listed

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Dates active 1876- after 1953

Donated around 1953

English collections Piece of the first trans-Atlantic cable, Tin dish stamped in the centre with a portrait head and coronation inscription of Edward VIII.

Oxford Uni Education Unknown

Oxford based No

English collection size 2

Connections Arthur Elderton / Herbert Henery Coghlan / Newbury Museum [for other items]