(Edward) Benjamin Howard Cunnington

Career Archaeologist

Biography Husband of Maud Edith Cunnington and fellow archaeologist. He was a journalist before joining the family wine merchant business. He was the fourth generation of his family to record Wiltshire antiquarian matters, for sixty years he was the Honorary curator of Devizes Museum. They carried out many excavations together in Wiltshire. [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 05/01/2007]

Biography References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Cunnington / http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/45470

Clubs & Societies Wiltshire Archaeological & Natural History Society

County Wiltshire

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner

Archaeological or Ethnographic Archaeology

Collected around 1911

Dates active 1861-1950

Donated around 1925

English collections Sherds

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based No

English collection size 29

Connections Maud Edith Cunnington