Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1919.
Readers are reminded that this table is a work in progress and may be amended or added to at any time.
Month | Day | Event | Source of Information | Notes |
January | 7 | Balfour released from No 8 General Hospital Rouen after heart attack | PRM Ms collections Balfour papers box 4; Frances Larson pers comm | |
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August | No day | Carline takes up duties as Assistant Curator, begins with cataloguing and labelling new acquisitions | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1919 | |
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November | 5 | Decree passed on 29.10.1919 and 4.11.1919 (in Convocation) reappointing Balfour untl 31.12.1926 with salary of £200 as Curator plus £300 pa from Common University Fund on condition he gives instruction to students. Also authorised maintenance grant not exceeding £300 pa | PRM ms collections PRM papers Box 1 Foundation of PRM | |
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Unspecified | Balfour reappointed as Curator for 7 years | Relational Museum timelines | ||
Unspecified | Balfour reappointed Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford | Relational Museum timelines | ||
Unspecified | Wilfred Susan Blackman continues to volunteer at Museum working on card catalogues | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1919 | ||
Unspecified | Louis Colville Gray Clarke (later director Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) volunteers at Museum after matriculating as candidate for Diploma | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report | ||
Unspecified | Museums Association visits Oxford for annual meeting, a 'demonstration' is given for them in the Museum | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1919 | ||
Unspecified | Displays worked on during the year: Stone implements, Naga shields | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1919 | ||
Unspecified | Thomson appointed first Dr Lee Profesor of human anatomy and student at Christ Church | DNB entry |
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