Herbert Henery Coghlan

Career Museum Professional / Archaeologist

Biography Curator of the Borough Museum at Newbury. He worked on the railways in Burma and India during the 1920s. In 1939 he returned to England. In 1946 he took over the honorary Curatorship of Newbury Museum assisted by his wife. He was greatly interested in archaeology and metallurgy. [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 05/01/2007]

Biography References Obituary Historical Metallurgy vol 16 no 2 (1982)

Clubs & Societies Royal Anthropological Institute [& earlier manifestations] / Society of Antiquaries

County Oxfordshire / Berkshire / London [Greater]

Relationship PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Archaeology

Dates active 1896-1981

Donated around By 1954

English collections Sherds, mould and battle axe from various archaeological sites

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based No

English collection size 18

Connections Thomas Kenneth Penniman / Ivor Michael Allen / Dennis Britton / Newbury Museum