H.P. [possibly Horatio Percy] Symonds

Career ?Medic / ?Academic

Biography Surgeon, resident in Beaumont Street, Oxford according to accession records, he also was titled 'Dr' but little further details are available. According to the Jackson's Oxford Journal 24.7.1875 Symonds was a 'life subscriber' to the Radcliffe Infirmary [he was living in Beaumont Street by this point]. In the same journal of 15.4.1882, he was described as surgeon. He was married on 15.12.1892 as reported in the same journal 24.12.1892. He obviously knew both C.M. Laing [0680] and Councillor Charles Underhill because he nominated Laing as a City Councillor with Underhill, according to the same journal 28.10.1899 [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 27/02/2007]

Biography References http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/cgi-bin/acwww25u/wbi10_en/allegro.pl / http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/statutes/354-051e.shtml#_Toc28142600 / http://www.npg.org.uk/live/photholdalbums.asp

County Oxfordshire / London [Greater]

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1899

Dates active Unknown ?active 1875-1922

Donated around 1899

English collections Horn lantern, 2 lister carbolic sprays now in the Oxford University Museum of the History of Science

Oxford Uni Education Unknown

Oxford based Yes

English collection size 3

Connections Arnold & Sons / Down Bros. Ltd / Henry Balfour / Evans / Maw / S. Maw Son & Thompson / Pickard and Curry / Walter's