Career Academic / Natural Historian / Librarian
Biography Radcliffe librarian, natural historian, sub-warden of Keble College and academic. According to the Palll Mall Gazette of 28.11.1873 issue 2742 he was at New College [presumably Oxford] and was conferred a degree. In the Birmingham Daily Post of 1.5.1900 he is described as the 'Science Tutor of Keble College' and had just been appointed Radcliffe Librarian following Acland [qv] [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 01/02/2007]
Biography References http://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/life/chapel/light.php / http://www.usc.edu/isd/locations/science/hancock/rbcat/post50r.htm / http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1319128
County Bristol
Relationship Other Owner / PRM Source
Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography
Dates active Unknown, active 1888-1921
Donated around 1921
English collections Pair of percussion pistols and tools, rim-fire pistol
Oxford Uni College New Coilege
Oxford Uni Education Possibly
Oxford based Yes
English collection size 18
Connections Charles Hatchett / Roderick W. Gordon / Colt / James Dixon and Sons / W. Hole