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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Arthur William Gerald Kingsbury

Career Natural Historian / Lawyer

Biography Worked in Department of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Oxford circa 1953. Leading authority on British minerals. He served as a solicitor whilst collecting minerals in the west country. In 1947 he became research assistant to Spiller [qv] [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 12/07/2007]

Biography References www.minsocam.org/ammin/AM58/AM58_372.pdf

County Oxfordshire

Relationship PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Other

Collected around 1953

Dates active 1906-1968

Donated around 1953

English collections Specimens of copper ore

Oxford Uni Education Unknown

Oxford based Yes

Portrait link www.minsocam.org/ammin/AM58/AM58_372.pdf

English collection size 10

Connections R.C. Spiller