Mary Grizel Hobson

Career Unknown

Biography Presumably interested in folklore or folk dance as she also recorded details about Oxfordshire mumming plays. Nothing is known directly about her however except that she was resident in Headington, Oxford according to accession records with her probable father Thomas Frederick Hobson [qv] which would mean that she was the Miss M.G. Hobson who helped Hobson arrange the New College archives in the 1920s. If so she published several publications with the Oxford Historical Society and a study of Otmoor [Thanks to Jennifer Thorp, Archivist, New College for this information] According to the 1901 Census Mary Grizel Hobson was aged 6 and living in Hampstead London at that time [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 30/01/2007]

Biography References http://www.folkplay.info/Helm/Helm02.htm / http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22801 / Jennifer Thorp, Archivist, New College

Clubs & Societies Oxford Historical Society

County No counties listed

Relationship Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1940

Date made around 1700-1800

Dates active ?1895-? active 1920s-1940

Donated around 1940

English collections Sugar nippers

Oxford Uni Education Unknown

Oxford based Yes

English collection size 1

Connections Thomas Frederick Hobson