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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[Mrs] John Wickham Flower

Career Unknown

Biography Widow of John Wickham Flowers, who lived in Croydon. He studied geology and archaeology, very little is known of this collector. She donated the collection to the OUMNH who transferred the collection to us[Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 16/01/2007]

Biography References Modern English Biography, Sarjeant 1980 / http://www.knowuk.co.uk/doc.do?categ_code=BIOG&SortType=relevance&ItemNumber=1&ResultsID=FD46E5D70DC / http://darwin.lib.cam.ac.uk/perl/nav?class=name;term=Flower%2C%20J.%20W. / http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=14920 / J. Wickham Flower, "Notices of an Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Farthing Down, Coulsdon, Surrey." Surrey Archaeological Collections 6, 1874, 109-117. 111

County Too many counties to list

Relationship Other Owner

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography Archaeology

Dates active Unknown

Donated around 1892

English collections Stone weapons and tools, iron harpoon head, bone skate, lead spoon, vessels, metal axes, casts, 2 bells

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based No

English collection size 273

Connections Oxford University Museum of Natural History / John Wickham Flower