Edgar [possibly Edgar W.] Willett

Career Archaeologist / Medic?

Biography A keen archaeologist, he had an M.B. but it is not clear what his career was. He may have been the Edgar Willett listed in the 1901 census as being aged 44, born in Brighton, Sussex living in Marylebone, London described as a 'surgeon'. According to Jackson's Oxford Journal of 8.12.1877 Edgar W. Willett of New College was examined satisfactorily in Chemistry prelims, Natural Science School. [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 06/03/2007]

Biography References http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:VMo7Z-y0BioJ:www.oahs.org.uk/oxo/vol%25205/MitfordJope.doc+edgar+willett&hl=en / http://www.soton.ac.uk/ » imw/purbdin.htmhttp://www.soton.ac.uk/ » imw/purbdin.htm / http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0959-5295%28190101%2F06%2931%3C310%3AOACOPI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-T

Clubs & Societies Royal Anthropological Institute [& earlier manifestations]

County Wiltshire

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Archaeology

Collected around 1901

Dates active Unknown, active 1881-1901

Donated around 1902

English collections Stone tools

Oxford Uni College New College

Oxford Uni Education ?Yes

Oxford based No

English collection size 9

Connections Herbert Samuel Toms / Henry Willett