Robert William Theodore Gunther

Career Museum Professional / Antiquarian / Natural Historian

Biography Academic natural historian, in 1924 he opened the old Ashmolean building as the Museum of the History of Science [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 23/01/2007]

Biography References http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33610 / Who was Who 2007

Clubs & Societies Linnean Society / Royal Geographical Society / British Association for the Advancement of Science / Zoological Society / Oxford Architectural & Historical / Athenaeum

County Too many counties to list

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1940

Dates active 1869-1940

Donated around 1940

English collections Leather shot-pouch, machine for turning-in the open end of pin-fire cartridges, felt wads, measure for gun-powder charges, measure for shot-charges, spectacles with metal frame and glass lenses, quartzite pounder, flint specimens, stone tools, symbolic purse which hangs from proctor's gown, fragment of 'greybeard' pottery showing a coat of arms, revolver, fans

Oxford Uni Education Yes

Oxford Uni date 1886-1892

Oxford based Yes

Date in Oxford 1886-1940

Portrait link http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33610

English collection size 221?

Connections Albert Everard Gunther / Eustace Neville Rolfe / Hermann Gunther / William and Charles Eley, Eley Bros. Limited / G. & J.W. Hawksley / E.M. Reilly and Co