Ivor Michael Allen

Career Museum Professional

Biography Ivor Michael Allen worked at the Pitt Rivers Museum as a technician all his life, he seems to have been particularly interested in metal objects. [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 05/01/2007]

Biography References PRM Annual Reports for 1945-6 and 1963

County Oxfordshire / Kent

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1958

Dates active 1931-1963

Donated around 1958

Owned 1958

English collections Soldier's identity discs, 2 clay pipes and skewer

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based Yes

Date in Oxford For life

English collection size 5

Connections Ivor Michael Allen's brother / Gilbert