Edward Lovett

Career Antiquarian / Businessman / Banker

Biography Resident of Croydon, antiquarian and collector. Head cashier of a City bank. He is listed in the 1901 census as bank clerk, aged 48 born in London Middlesex and living in Croydon [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 07/02/2007]

Biography References http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/archive/display.var.452092.0.lucky_charms_of_old_london.html / http://www.cornucopia.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/5398

Clubs & Societies Croydon Microscopical & Natural History Society / Folklore Society

County Too many counties to list

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic EthnographyArchaeology

Collected around 1933

Dates active 1852-1933

Donated around 1933

English collections Tally sticks, tokens, amulets, lighting accessories, spurs, game pieces, mangle and board, tinder boxes and steels, stone tools including forgeries, taper and candles, prayer scarf, scourge, citron

Oxford Uni Education Unknown

Oxford based No

English collection size 120

Connections Henry Balfour / George Poulett / Frederick Thomas Elworthy / Stevens Auction Rooms / Somerset Archaeological Society / Wellcome Institute [Wellcome Historical Medical Museum] [for other items] / Somerset County Museum, Taunton