James Charles Clutterbuck

Career Religious / Antiquarian / Archaeologist / Natural Historian

Biography A clergyman who worked in Central London and Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire, an authority on water problems and amateur archaeologist. In the Ipswich Journal of 12.5.1885 his death was announced 'for 55 years vicar of Long Witttenham, Berks, and for many years Rural Dean of Abingdon. He was a son of Mr Robert Clutterbuck of Watford, the author of the 'History and Antiquities of Hertfordshire'. He graduated at Exeter College, Oxford, in 11826 and was elected a Fellow of that Society, a position he held until his marriage, in 1831, with Louisa, daughter of the Hon. and Rev William Robert Capel ... Possessed of an extensive knowledge of the science of geology. which he applied to sound practical use, he was regarded as a high authority upon all questions relating to water, and had earned for himself the title of the 'Father of hydro-geology', and his advice upon water-supply, wells and other cognate matter was as willingly rendered as his opinion was universally sought ...' [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 15/12/2006]

Biography References http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Departments/Darwin/corresps/clist.html / Donor index cards, Ashmolean Museum / http://www.groundwateruk.org/html/depth1.htm / http://www.ashmolean.org/ash/amps/leeds/AS_Oxfordshire/wittenham/long_wittenham_index.html

County London [Greater] / Oxfordshire

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner

Archaeological or Ethnographic Archaeology

Collected around 1892

Dates active 1801-1885

Donated around 1892

Owned 1892

English collections Stone tools and coin, pottery vessels, horse bits, spindle whorl

Oxford Uni College Exeter College

Oxford Uni Education Unknown

Oxford Uni date circa 1825

Oxford based Yes

Date in Oxford circa 1825

English collection size 20

Connections Augustus Lane Fox Pitt Rivers / Oxford University Museum of Natural History / Geology Department, Oxford University Museum of Natural History