Contributors to the founding collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum and Pitt-Rivers' second collection

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Pal, Jadu Nath (or Jadunath); Biography: Indian artist.; Dates: c1821-c1900; Source: here; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Palazzo Manfrini, Venice; Biography: Nothing specific is known of this collection; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Paris Exposition Universelle 1878; Biography: The third Paris World's Fair, called an Exposition Universelle in French, was held from May 1 though to November 10, 1878. It celebrated the recovery of France after the 1870 Franco-Prussian War.; Dates: 1878; Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_Universelle_(1878); Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Parker, James; Biography: From Oxford, antiquarian explored hyaena den at Wookey Hole with W. Boyd Dawkins.; Dates: 1834-1912; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Parry, C.; Biography: Probably a Captain in the Royal Navy, but his identity remains unconfirmed. He is associated with objects from Veracruz, Mexico; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Parry, William Warner; Biography: Clergyman, chaplain Royal Navy, of HMS Excellent and Malacca.; Dates: No specific dates known; Source: here; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Paully et Cie de Paris; Biography: Gunmakers.; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Payne, George; Biography: Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and part of Ethnographic Survey of the UK by the Society with Pitt-Rivers. Little else is known; Dates: No specific dates known; Source: http://england.prm.ox.ac.uk/englishness-Ethnographical-Survey-of-the-UK.html; Collection: Second collection

Pearce; Biography: Nothing is known of this collector, except he is associated with a Cypriot archaeological item obtained via G.F. Lawrence; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Pearse, George Godfrey; Biography: Served in the Madras Artillery from 1845 and was later Colonel Commandant of the Royal Horse Artillery. Interested in archaeology.; Dates: 1827-1905; Source: here; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Pearse, John; Biography: Member of the Anthropological Institute, visitor to Costa Rica.; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Pearson; Biography: Nothing known, described as Pearson's so most likely to be a shop or dealership. It was the source of 6 bronze archaeological objects from Cyprus; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Penny, William; Biography: Resident of Bowerchalke, Wiltshire; listed in the 1901 census as William Penny, aged 42 born and living in Bower Chalk a 'dealer in boots & grocery'; Dates: 1859?-?; Collection: Second collection

Petherick, John; Biography: Mining engineeer, served in Egypt as surveyor and explorer. Vice-consul in Khartoum, keen collector of ethnographic and natural history specimens.; Dates: 1813-1882; Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Petherick; Collection: Founding collection, PRM and second collection

Petrie, George; Biography: Irish antiquarian of Scottish descent. Artist and antiquarian; Dates: ?1789 or 1790-1866; Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Petrie_(artist); Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Petrie, William Matthew Flinders; Biography: Archaeologist and Egyptologist; Dates: 1853-1942; Source: www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35496; Collection: Founding collection, PRM and second collection

Pfeffer; Biography: Pfeffer collection, nothing is known; again it came to Pitt-Rivers via Egger [qv]; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Phillips and Company; Biography: There appear to be two companies with the name mentioned, this one is based in King William Street, both in London. http://www.bl.uk/learning/images/texts/cooks/transcript1446.html includes an advert for Phillips and Company, tea merchants of 8 King William Street which is presumably one of the companies and suggests two companies are included; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Phillips, Son & Neale; Biography: There are two companies named Phillips mentioned in the catalogue, this one is based in Bond Street and is definitely an auctioneer and is therefore probably Phillips, Son & Neale (known as Phillips and now known as Phillips de Pury.; Dates: 1796- present day; Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_de_Pury_&_Company; Collection: Second collection

Phineus Painter, The; Biography: According to the Getty (see website link below) the Phineus Painter decorated pottery in a style that scholars call "Chalkidian" in late 500s BC. He was probably from Chalkis on the island of Euboea and establisehd a pottery workshop somewhere in Italy (either one of the Greek colonies or Etruria). His name is unknown and he is named after a cup depicting the myth of Phineus.; Dates: 530-500 BC; Source: http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=804; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Phoros, Joseph; Biography: Icon maker c 1500-1650.; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Pickert; Biography: Dealers from Albrecht Durer Platz, Nuremberg, Germany. Well-known dealer who also sold to the South Kensington Museum / Victoria & Albert ('A Biographical Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Antique and Curiosity Dealers' M. Westgarth: 2009 special issue Journal of Regional Furniture); Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Pickford, William Henry; Biography: He appears to have been an assistant surgeon of the Household Brigade, British Army in 1850s and 1860s. 'GRENADIER GUARDS. ... Officers serving in the Regiment who attended the Dinner at the Albion Tavern, 6th June, 1866. Pickford, Assist-Surg. W. H., M.B.', see website; Dates: No specific dates known; Source: here; Collection: Second collection

Pinkerton, Dr; Biography: Dr Pinkerton of Glasgow. Nothing further is known of this field collector who obtained a boomerang in Egypt.; Dates: ?- by 1882; Collection: Second collection

Pinto, Yusuf Ben Haim; Biography: Described as J.B.H. Pinto in the catalogue. I think it must be Yusuf Ben Haim Pinto listed in the British Museum biographical database as the source of a scarab in 1853.; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Pinxton Pottery; Biography: Derbyshire pottery. The factory was established by John Coke and William Billingsley; Dates: 1796-1813; Source: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/461270/Pinxton-porcelain; Collection: Second collection

Pisa, Alessandro; Biography: Alessandro Pisa was a saddlemaker who lived in Naples, Italy; nothing further is known of him; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Pisano, Guinta; Biography: Italian painter.; Dates: c1202-1236; Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giunta_Pisano; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Pitt, Mrs Douglas; Biography: It seems unlikely that this is the wife of Douglas Henry Lane Fox-Pitt as he does not appear to have married; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Pool, W.; Biography: Dealer based in Pall Mall, London. He might have been a sword-maker or a dealer as the object he is associated with is a sword; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Poore, Aaron; Biography: Gravedigger at Chalbury Church; he is probably the man recorded in the transcription of Chalbury 1901 census by the OPC as 'Aaron Poole (?) head of household, aged 40, agricultural labourer born in Tarrant Gunville Dorset'. He had a wife, Sarah, and 7 children. He seems to have been listed in the 1881 census at Wimborne, Witchampton aged 20.; Dates: ?1861-?; Collection: Second collection

Porrett, Robert; Biography: Storekeeper and Chemist, keen antiquarian.; Dates: 1783-1868; Source: www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22549; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Porter, Frederick K.; Biography: Vicar of Yedingham in Yorkshire, a close associate of Canon Greenwell, and for a short time, Chaplain to the Naval College in Jersey. Keen archaeologist. 'General Pitt-Rivers, Captain Lukis and Channel Island Prehistory', by Mark A. Patton, in Antiquity, Vol. 61 (no. 233; November 1987); Dates: Unknown, active 1867; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Posno, Gustave; Biography: Obviously a collector and dealer in Egyptian antiquities, little known 'Gustave Posno, joaillier d'origine nerlandaise, active au Caire durant la deuxième moitié ...'and 'un collectionneur hollandais célèbre, Gustave Posno' was all I was able to find. 'Collection de Gustave Posno: Antiquites Egyptiennes Greco-Romaines Et Romaines' (1883) was written for the sale of his collection by Rollin & Feuardent on 22 May 1883 at the Hotel Drouot.; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Pouncey or Pouncy possibly John Pouncy; Biography: Based in Dorchester, Dorset. An examination of the Kelly's Directory for 1889 for Dorchester gives three Pouncys [sic, note spelling]. These are: W.J. Pouncy, Whittington Life Insurance Agent; Thomas Crook Pouncy, Collector of Taxes; and (perhaps the most likely candidate) John Pouncy, commercial photographer. There is quite a lot of information about John Pouncy on the web, he was an early photographer who specialised in photographs of Dorset (see website for further information). To date I have no information that he sold objects though the Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography, Volume 1 By John Hannavy in its entry for John says he was also a dealer in oil paintings (page 1168); Dates: If John then 1818-1894; Source: http://dorset-ancestors.com/?p=850; Collection: Second collection

Poupon Freres; Biography: of La Bourboule, Puy de Dome, France; nothing is known; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Powell, F.; Biography: Artist, nothing known. One of his paintings is called 'Highland Loch', a previous owner was James Anning [qv]; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Powell, John Wesley; Biography: Director of the Bureau of Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institute.; Dates: 1834-1902; Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wesley_Powell; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Pressland, H.; Biography: Nothing is known of this donor except he gave items from Hunsbury Hill, Northampton so he may have been a local archaeologist; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Prestwich, Joseph; Biography: Geologist, Professor of Geology at Oxford University from 1874-1888.; Dates: 1812-1896; Source: www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22736; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Price, Frederick George Hilton; Biography: Antiquarian, archaeologist, and banker.; Dates: 1842-1909; Source: www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35609; Collection: Founding collection, PRM and second collection

Prince, James; Biography: James Prince according to the catalogue lived or worked at Farnham Farm. He may be the same person as the one listed in the 1861 census for Tarrant Gunville as 'James; Prince; Head; Mar; 26; Thatcher; Dorset Gunville; F65/p12'; Dates: 1835?-?; Collection: Second collection

Prince, William; Biography: A William Prince is listed in the 1901 census as being aged 69, born in Dorset, and living in Sutton Waldron (near Blandford, between Farnham and Hinton St Mary) who was shepherd on a farm. This is likely to be the right person; Dates: ?1832-?; Collection: Second collection

Pringle, Elizabeth; Biography: Nothing is known of this previous owner of a collection sold by John Campbell, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane [qv] at Christie's; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Pringle, Elizabeth Maitland Campbell; Biography: Daughter of John Campbell, first Marquess of Breadalbane. [source: The peerage]; Dates: ?-1878; Collection: Second collection

Proctor & Co., Messrs: Indian Art Gallery; Biography: Messrs Proctor & Co., also known as the Indian Art Gallery were based at 428 Oxford Street, London; nothing further is known of them except the set up workshops in India to produce artefacts for the London market. They provided Pitt-Rivers with objects for both collections from around 1875; Dates: From before 1875; Source: http://www.learn.columbia.edu/delight/main.html; Collection: Founding collection, PRM and second collection

Pulszky, Ferenc; Biography: Hungarian writer and politician who spent time in England in exile and was interested in archaeology.; Dates: 1814-1897; Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferenc_Pulszky; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Purnell, possibly Purnell Bransby; Biography: Antiquarian collector of an Irish archaeological artefact about whom nothing is known for sure. It may be Purnell B. Purnell (ne Purnell Bransby Cooper), 'PURNELL COLL. 1872. Catalogue of....a Collection of Works of Art and Antiquity Formed by the Late Purnell Bransby Purnell Esq. Stancombe Park, Gloucestershire which will be sold by auction by Messrs Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge....8th May 1872. London'. If this is correct he was born 1786 and was Deputy Lieutenant for Gloucestershire.; Dates: Possibly 1786-? by 1872; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Pusey, Lieutenant; Biography: Served with the Royal Navy, and visited Vancouver Island but nothing else is known about this collector. The item was obtained via J.G. Wood [qv]; Dates: No specific dates known; Source: http://thepeerage.com/p31836.htm; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Compiled by AP during RPR project 2009-2012