Contributors to the founding collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum and Pitt-Rivers' second collection

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Fabre, Guillaume; Biography: It seems most likely that the man referred to as Fabre of Royat was actually Guillaume Fabre described in the following website as a collector of Auvergne objects (the same as Pitt-Rivers obtained from this source): 'L'acquisition d'objets populaires en " bois sculpté " fut d'abord le fait des doublement " antiquaires " Guillaume Fabre (1823-1894) de Royat ...'; Dates: 1823-1894; Source: http://georges.dubouchet.free.fr/museedescampagnes/mapage2/index.html; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Farebrother, H. Lloyd; Biography: ?Dealer of New Street, Salisbury - nothing is known of this individual, he does not seem to appear in either the 1891 or 1901 censuses; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Farquharson, Henry Richard; Biography: English landowner and Conservative MP for West Dorset. He owned an estate in Tarrant Gunville near Blandford Forum in Dorset, and was therefore a close neighbour of Pitt-Rivers. He must have obtained the item he presented on his last voyage to his plantations in Sri Lanka; he died unexpectedly on his voyage home.; Dates: 1857-1895; Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Richard_Farquharson; Collection: Second collection

Farquharson, Mrs Ronald; Biography: Nothing is known of this donor, who gave a betel box; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Farr, W.; Biography: A previous owner of Ilford House near Cranbourne Chase, about whom nothing further is known. He is associated with a sundial which was given to Pitt-Rivers by Charles M. Bennett [qv]; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Farrer, James; Biography: MP for Durham and archaeologist; Dates: 1812-1879; Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Farrer; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Faulder, William Wareing; Biography: A collector of arms and armour, a member of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society. He lived in Nantwich, Cheshire and he and his wife died in 1893, a year after his son was born, according to http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/CHESHIRE/2003-04/1050684110. Part of his collection was sold at Christie's in 1889.; Dates: ?-1893; Collection: Second collection

Fegan, P.; Biography: Presumably a resident around Mullingar in Ireland, an amateur archaeologist? Nothing is known for sure.; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Fenton and Sons; Biography: Dealers, based at Holywell Street and New Oxford Street. Also known as Messrs Fenton Ltd, and S.G. Fenton Ltd. See H Waterfield and JCH King, "Provenance: Twelve collectors of ethnographic art in England 1760-1990" Somogy Art Publishers Barbier-Mueller Museum 2006 p 52-53; Dates: Active circa 1880-1930; Source: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=87586; Collection: Founding collection, PRM and second collection

Feuardent, Felix; Biography: Antiquities dealer. Rollin [qv] took Felix Feuardent into partnership and opened a branch at 27 Haymarket, London, in 1867, and later moved into premises at 10 Bloomsbury Street, WC1 (at other times at no. 6). After the death of Rollin the firm continued under the leadership of Feuardent and operated under the name of Feuardent Frères.; Dates: 1819-1907; Source: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=93014; Collection: Founding collection, PRM and second collection

Field; Biography: Nothing is known of this collector.; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Field, Mrs; Biography: Nothing is known of this donor, who gave some items from the Darling River area of Australia.; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Fielding or Feilding, Percy Robert Basil; Biography: Served in the Coldstream Guards, described in detail in following website. He was commander of the Infantry Brigade at Malta between 1879 and 1894. NB the surname is sometimes spelt 'ei' and sometimes 'ie'.; Dates: 1827-1904; Source: http://www.halhed.com/t4r/getperson.php?personID=I11042&tree=tree1; Collection: Second collection

Fleischmann, C.; Biography: Dealer of 6 Maximilian Strasse, Munchen (Munich), Germany; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Flemington or Flemmington, William; Biography: According to the 1891 census his name was spelt Flemington but the catalogue spells it with 2 'm's. He was blacksmith in Cranborne; Dates: No specific dates known; Source: http://www.opcdorset.org/CranborneFiles/CranborneDirectory.htm; Collection: Second collection

Fletcher, Walter John?; Biography: W. Fletcher is associated with three objects found when excavating Kings Mill Bridge, Wimborne. Probably Walter John Fletcher, of Wimborne, born in Derby aged 58 in 1901 and County Surveyor, Dorset. He is described elsewhere as an architect and friend of Thomas Hardy. He seems to have been interested in antiquarian matters, as he apparently published 'Lady Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby, and her connection with Wimborne Minster', W.J.Fletcher, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 28 219-224.; Dates: ?1843-?; Collection: Second collection

Flower, John Wickham; Biography: Antiquarian based in Croydon.; Dates: 1807-1873; Source: http://www.croydon.gov.uk/leisure/parksandopenspaces/parksatoz/parkhill/phrghistory; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Flower, Mrs John Wickham; Biography: No further information available, she was married to the collector above and lived in Croydon.; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Fontaine; Biography: Nothing is known of the Fontaine collection, a shield from which came to Pitt-Rivers via Christopher Beckett Denison. It might be the collection of Pierre François Léonard Fontaine (1762-1853) whose collection with Charles Percier (1764-1838) is now in Chicago. They were both architectural and interior designers, see http://www.artic.edu/aic/libraries/research/specialcollections/percierfontaine/index.html. There is no positive evidence to support this supposition; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Foote, Robert Bruce; Biography: Member of the Geological Survey of India.; Dates: ?1834-1912; Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bruce_Foote; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Forbes, Julia Wyndham; Biography: She lived in Shillingstone with her husband, Lachlan Forbes who had been an Army officer, including serving in the Grenadier Bombadiers in Bombay, India. She was a watercolour artist and had eight children; Dates: ?1840-1929; Collection: Second collection

Forman, William Henry; Biography: Collector of late Roman/early Medieval items according to the British Museum database. See W. Chaffers, 'Catalogue of the Works of Antiquity and Art collected by the late William Henry Forman, esq., Pippbrook House, Dorking, Surrey, and removed in 1890 to Callaly Castle, Northumberland, by Major A. H. Browne', privately published, 1892. He was master of Glamorgan Ironworks, and builder of the Gothic Renaissance Pippbrook House, in Dorking designed by George Gilbert Scott's office. According to http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=6626&searchid=9945&tabview=text his collection came by descent to Major A.H. Browne in 1869, and was sold at Sotheby's 27 June 1899.; Dates: Unknown active 1856-?1869; Collection: Second collection

Foster Connor; Biography: Collector of silverware, bought by Pitt-Rivers from Christie's in 1886, they are said in CUL volume 2 page 205, to have been based in Belfast, they might therefore have been Foster Connor, linen manufacturer and bleacher, residing at 8 Albion Place, Belfast.; Dates: No specific dates known; Source: http://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/Lcomplete1861.htm; Collection: Second collection

Foster, A.; Biography: Captain in the Royal Navy, nothing else is known. He is associated with an object from Peru. The item came to Pitt-Rivers via Edward Cunnington [qv]; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Foster, Messrs; Biography: Dealer and auctioneers at 54 Pall Mall, London. Started by Edward Foster according to the Literary Gazette and Journal of Belle Lettres for the year 1833, also known as Edward Foster & Son.; Dates: Early 1830s-1940 or later; Source: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40581; Collection: Second collection

Fowler, possibly John; Biography: Described in volume 9 of the CUL catalogues as 'Fowler of Wakefield' it could be Sir John Fowler, first baronet, a civil engineer; Dates: ?1817-1898; Source: www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10011; Collection: Second collection

Fox-Pitt, Lily Ethel; Biography: Nee Payne, married William Augustus Lane Fox-Pitt, son of Pitt-Rivers, in April 1893.; Dates: ?-1924; Collection: Second collection

Fox-Pitt, Lionel Charles Lane; Biography: Son of Pitt-Rivers. Spent several years in Canada and returned in ill-health. Took part in archaeological digs in Cyprus and considered working for Pitt Rivers as unpaid assistant [Bowden, 1991: 33, 35]; Dates: 1860-1937; Collection: Second collection

Fox-Pitt, Mary Netta; Biography: nee Mary Netta Blackett, Wife of Lionel Charles Lane Fox-Pitt [son of Pitt-Rivers], qv. She married him in December 1898 and was divorced in 1920; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Fox-Pitt, St George William Lane; Biography: St George William Lane Fox-Pitt was Pitt-Rivers' second son; Dates: 1856-1932; Collection: Second collection

Fox-Pitt, William Augustus Lane; Biography: Third son of Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers. After education at Charterhouse he joined the Grenadier Guards and served in the 'Zulu' wars. He also seems to have served in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.; Dates: 1858-1945; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Fox-Pitt, William Augustus Lane; Biography: William Augustus Lane Fox-Pitt was Pitt-Rivers third son.; Dates: 1858-; Collection: Second collection

Fox, W. Lane; Biography: This could be Pitt-Rivers' father, William Augustus Lane Fox (1796-1832)[qv].; Dates: ?1796-1832; Source: http://www.thepeerage.com/p2805.htm#i28042; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Francati, Francesco; Biography: of 38 St Oswald Road, West Brompton, London. He seems to have been a dealer, or manufacturer of glassware shown at Olympia; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Franci, Gio. Batti; Biography: Gunmaker. According to Charles ffoulkes, 'The Franci were a family of gunsmiths who worked at Gardrone and Brescia in the seventeenth century' ['European Arms and Armour in the University of Oxford' Clarendon Press, Oxford. p. 51]; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Franck, S.M. & Son; Biography: Dealer of St Mary Axe, London. As the items purchased came from Japan it seems likely that this refers to S.M. Franck and Son. The BM database states: Dealer; active from 1883 or earlier, to at least the late 1930s. A minute by A.F. Kendrick of the V&A states that S.M. Franck was established as a company by 1883 (S.M. Franck & Co. Nominal Papers, MA/1/F1203, V&A Archive, London). S M Franck's were important dealers in Chinese antiquities, selling widely to the V&A and, in particular, to Sir William Burrell, the Glasgow collector. "It is interesting that Burrell should also be buying from S.M. Franck & Co., a well-established wholesale dealer, whose warehouse was at 25 Camomile Street in the City of London and who was importing objects directly from China and supplying institutions such as the V&A at this time. Franck seems to have gained a reputation for supplying newly discovered archaeological pieces at reasonable prices. Certainly by 1910, when Burrell seems first to have entered the market for such objects, there was steadily growing competition in this area internationally." - from Nick Pearce, 'From Collector To Connoisseur: Sir William Burrell and Chinese Art, 1911-57': http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/admn/php/carp/essay1.php?enum=1097070125'; Dates: Active 1883 to 1937 or later; Collection: Second collection

Frank Giles & Co.; Biography: Furniture dealers and decorative goods, of High Street Kensington. Run by Francis Harry Giles according to Edinburgh Gazette, 25 December 1903.; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Frankenthal Porcelain Factory; Biography: Frankenthal was one of the greatest porcelain manufacturers in Germany, based at the eponymous city in Rhineland-Palatinate.; Dates: 1755-1799; Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenthal_porcelain_factory; Collection: Second collection

Franks, Augustus Wollaston; Biography: Antiquarian and keeper of the British Museum ethnographic collections.; Dates: 1826-1897; Source: www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10093; Collection: Founding collection, PRM and second collection

Frewer, R.; Biography: Nothing is known of Frewer except he is associated with an artefact from Tibet; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Frizell, Walter W.; Biography: Little is known of him except he lived at 15 Frome Terrace, Dorchester in Dorset. A Walter William Frizzell is listed in the census for 1881 for Milton Abbas, aged 3 weeks, it seems unlikely his is the right match but he is the only Walter Frizell listed in the census for 1881-1901. He is associated with a silver English watch.; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Funghini, Vincenzo; Biography: Italian architect, engineer, collector and restorer from Arezzo. Source: Etruscan Studies vol 8 2001 Article 9 Etruschi nel tempo. I ritrovamenti di Arezzo Dal 500 ad Oggi by Silvia Vilucchi and Paola Zamarchi Grassi Ingrid Edlund-Berry; Dates: 1828-1896; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

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