Edward Lawson

Career Sailor

Biography Owner of whaling ships in the South Pacific, active between 1819-1840 [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 05/02/2007]

Biography References Janet West of the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University

County No counties listed

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1819 - 1840

Date made around By 1840

Dates active Unknown, active 1819-1840

Donated around 1936

English collections Scrimshaw, it is not clear it actually came from England or was created by an English person

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based No

English collection size 17

Connections Charles Miskin Laing