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

Herbert Ellis Norris

Career Antiquarian / Trader / ?Artist / Writer / Historian

Biography Jeweller and local historian of Huntingdonshire and Cirencester. Listed in the 1901 census as Herbert E. Norris aged 42, born in St Ives Huntingdonshire, and living in Cirencester, Gloucestershire described as a 'jeweller and silversmith' [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 19/02/2007]

Biography References http://www.springerlink.com/content/h01284n72m41821l/ / http://nq.oxfordjournals.org/content/vols11-XI/issue269/index.dtl / http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0007-1005%28196511%2914%3A1%3C48%3AHOOSAP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H / http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=42468 / OLIS

Clubs & Societies Cirencester Naturalists and Archaeologists Club / Zoological Society

County Gloucestershire / London [Greater]

Relationship Other Owner

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1895-1899

Dates active 1859-1931

Donated around 1950

English collections Keys

Oxford Uni Education Unknown

Oxford based No

English collection size 4

Connections Catherine E. Parsons / Frederick George Hilton Price