ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN

Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Explore the database of all the people associated with the Pitt Rivers English collections. This gives information about their lives; their education, careers, place of residence, and their network of friends and colleagues. Select the first letter of their surname from the list below.

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William Hatchett Jackson

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