Thomas W. possibly Thomas Wyatt Bagshawe

Career Traveller / Anthropologist / Natural Historian / Museum Professional / Engineer / Businessman

Biography A director of his family's engineering firm, and geologist who travelled to Antarctica, he worked for various museums in Bedfordshire in an honorary capacity. Wrote on local history, folklore and antiquarian matters. There is a collection of rural crafts and trades related artefacts, obtained by him, at the Stockwood Park Museum, Luton, Bedfordshire, see website below [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 04/12/2006]

Biography References http://www.luton.gov.uk/internet/Leisure_and_culture/Museums_and_galleries/Stockwood%20Park/Thomas%20Wyatt%20Bagshawe%20rural%20crafts%20and%20trades%20collection / Who Was Who 2007

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

County Cambridgeshire

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1949

Dates active 1901-1976

Donated around 1949

Owned 1949

English collections Carpenter's adze

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based No

English collection size 1

Connections A. Mainland / John Hunt