ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN

Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Explore the database of all the people associated with the Pitt Rivers English collections. This gives information about their lives; their education, careers, place of residence, and their network of friends and colleagues. Select the first letter of their surname from the list below.

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Individual's Details

G.H. [probably George Henry] Fox

Career Unknown

Biography A member of the Quaker Fox family that owned Glendurgan Garden, Falmouth. Little is known of this particular individual, he is presumably related to Edward Burnett Tylor via his wife. This is probably the George H. Fox listed in the 1901 census as being aged 55, born and living in Falmouth, Cornwall and described as a 'Ship Agent Timber Merchant' [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 16/01/2007]

County Cornwall

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1887

Dates active 1845-1931

Donated around 1887

English collections Horn fog signal used by fishermen

Oxford Uni Education Unknown

Oxford based No

English collection size 1

Connections Francis Fox Tuckett / Edward Burnett Tylor