Henry Stopes

Career Scientist / Anthropologist / Archaeologist / Architect / Engineer

Biography Owned one of the largest private collections of stone tools, particularly collected round his house in Swanscombe, most of this collection is now in the National Museum of Wales. He does not appear to be listed in the 1901 census [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 27/02/2007]

Biography References Sarah Milliken / http://www.soton.ac.uk/ » gilbert/PASHCC/Project_staff_pages/Francis_Wenban-Smith/Francis_Wenban-Smith.htm / http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/0304csp.html / http://www.kmatthews.org.uk/cult_archaeology/out_of_place_artefacts_9.html / http://www.dartford.gov.uk/cemetery/Cemeteriesdetails.htm

Clubs & Societies Geological Association / Geological Society / British Association for the Advancement of Science / Royal Anthropological Institute [& earlier manifestations]

County Kent

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Archaeology

Collected around 1894

Dates active ?-1902

Donated around 1894

English collections Stone tools

Oxford Uni Education Unknown

Oxford based No

English collection size 10