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

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Hoechst Porcelain; Biography: Hoechst Porcelain factory was founded in 1746, supported by the Elector of Mainz, mainly specialised in figures; Dates: 1746-1796; Source: http://www.porcelainbiz.com/hoechst.htm; Collection: Second collection

Hackett, W.; Biography: Nothing is known of this collector who is associated with objects from Jamaica acquired in 1863.; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Hadley of Birmingham; Biography: Firearms or weapons manufacturer of Birmingham. Nothing is known in detail. cf 'British Military Firearms', Howard Blackmore, 1994.; Dates: Unknown active circa 1801; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Hague, Louis; Biography: Artist who created landscape scenes of other countries; little other information is known; Dates: 1806-1895; Collection: Second collection

Haig, Axel Herman; Biography: From http://www.intaglio-fine-art.com/info-artists/artists.html 'Swedish etcher and painter who lived in London. Attracted by urban and architectural subjects he travelled on the Continent as well as England where he found inspiration for his work. Exhibited RA, and member RPE.'; Dates: 1835-1921; Source: www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/64824; Collection: Second collection

Hall, H. H. (possibly H. H. Hill); Biography: Nothing is known of this collector.; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Halstaff & Hannaford; Biography: 228 Regent Street. William Halstaff & Thomas Charles Hannaford. According to the Victoria and Albert Museum 'the firm put together and sold writing boxes, dressing cases and ladies' work boxes'.; Dates: No specific dates known; Source: http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O78447/hand-warmer-and/; Collection: Second collection

Hamilton Palace; Biography: Hamilton Palace collection, a large collection of paintings, furniture and objets d'art held in Hamilton Palace which was a large country house located in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The former seat of the Dukes of Hamilton built in 1695, subsequently much enlarged, and demolished in 1921. See also http://sites.scran.ac.uk/vhp/treasures.html; Dates: see website; Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Palace; Collection: Second collection

Hamilton-Gray, Elizabeth Caroline; Biography: Antiquarian, author of 'Tour of the Sepulchres of Etruria in 1839', London, 1840.; Dates: 1800-1887; Collection: Second collection

Hamilton-Gray, John; Biography: Based at Carntyne in Scotland. He succeeded to the Carntyne estate in 1833 on the death of his father. As the following website relates: 'vicar of Bolsover and Scarcliffe in Derbyshire; twenty years rural dean of Chesterfield; and afterwards rector of Walton-le-Wold. He was a celebrated genealogist, and an accomplished scholar. His lady, also of an ancient Scotch family, holds a high place in literary circles as authoress of "A History of the Roman Emperors," "A Tour to the Sepulchres of Etruria," and other distinguished works. The reverend gentleman died in London, April 1867, and lies buried with his ancestors in the crypt of Glasgow Cathedral.' Deputy Lieutenant of Lanarkshire and member of the bar.; Dates: 1800-1867; Source: http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/smihou/smihou019.htm; Collection: Second collection

Hamilton, Mrs; Biography: Nothing is known of this resident of Dinard, Brittany, France; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Harding, George R.; Biography: A dealer based in Charing Cross Road and St Martins Court (Leicester Square) and St James Square, all London. His full first name is taken from the BM biographical database where he is described as being a dealer / auction house active in the late 19th and early 20th century. A.W. Franks also used this dealer.; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Harrison, Benjamin; Biography: Benjamin Harrison was a grocer, he became interested in geology and archaeology as a child and began digging and collecting stone tools in 1864.; Dates: 1837-1921; Source: http://www.ightham.org/about_ightham.htm; Collection: Second collection

Hart, Thomas; Biography: Probably Thomas Hart, an antiquarian based in Reigate, Surrey. He was possibly an optician (see BMJ Jan 23 1864) or he could also have been a solicitor, see website below. Nothing is known for certain of this owner. Pitt-Rivers obtained 7 objects from Hart in Reigate which form part of the founding collection. It is not known why another item was not donated at the same time as that collection but ended up being accessioned some twenty years later, without documentation, into the second collection.; Dates: Unknown, active 1878; Collection: Founding collection, PRM and second collection

Hartley, Harold; Biography: Co-founder of the London Exhibitions Ltd [qv] Collector of illustrations. See The 'Hartley Collection of Victorian Illustration' Sarah Hamilton Phelps Boston Museum Bulletin, Vol. 70, No. 360 (1972), pp. 52-67; Dates: 1851-?before 1955; Collection: Second collection

Hartmann; Biography: An unknown swordmaker around 1700; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Harvey, Magdalen Breadalbane Pringle; Biography: Magdalen Breadalbane Pringle was the daughter of Sir John Pringle of Stichill, 5th Bt. and Lady Elizabeth Maitland Campbell.; Dates: ?-1913; Source: http://www.thepeerage.com/p30848.htm; Collection: Second collection

Hasluck, Ernest Edward; Biography: Only one Hasluck is listed in the 1901 census as living in [Sixpenny] Handley, it seems likely that he is the match. He was a Church of England clergyman who lived at Handley Vicarage aged 42. By 1915 they have moved to Warren House, Caversham, Reading. His son (who died at Gallipoli) was born in 1888 in Handsworth Birmingham which was Ernest's family home, between Island Road, Sandwell Road, Oxhill Road and Sandwell Road and was eventually demolished in 1930. The site now is Sandwell Recreation Ground.; Dates: ?1859-?; Collection: Second collection

Hastings; Biography: It seems clear that the reference to the Hastings collection is probably to the Lord Hastings' Collection sold at Sotheby's, 15-19 November 1880. This must refer to one of the three Lord Hastings: Sir Delaval Loftus Astley, 18th Lord Hastings [1825-1872], Clergyman; or Sir Bernard Edward Delaval Astley, 19th Lord Hastings 1855-1875, or Sir George Manners Astley, 20th Lord Hastings 1857-1904, army officer (the first two are more likely); Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Hastings, B.; Biography: Resident of Jersey, nothing known for sure.; Dates: Unknown active 1867; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Hastings, Warren; Biography: Governor-general of Bengal; Dates: 1732-1818; Source: www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12587; Collection: Second collection

Hatley, Mrs; Biography: This could be Annie Richardson Hatley, who published a book 'Early days in the Walthamstow district' by Walthamstow Antiquarian Society in 1933, or a relative of hers.; Dates: Unknown, active 1874; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Haultain, Theodore Minet; Biography: Soldier and politician in New Zealand.; Dates: 1817-1902; Source: http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/DNZB/alt_essayBody.asp?essayID=1H12; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Hays, Aaron; Biography: Amateur sculptor and attendant at the British Museum; Dates: No specific dates known; Source: http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_mla/t/two_assyrian-style_figures.aspx; Collection: Second collection

Hayter, Charles J.; Biography: Hayter obviously worked in the nursery garden of the Rushmore estate for Pitt-Rivers. A Charles J. Hayter is listed in the 1891 census as living in Farnham Dorset, a married agricultural labourer aged 27, this is probably the same person as is listed in the 1901 census as being aged 37, now described as a 'domestic gardener', born in Woodcutts, Dorset and then living in Berwick St John Entire, Wiltshire. This must be the Hayter mentioned.; Dates: 1864-?; Collection: Second collection

Hayward, James; Biography: Little is known about Hayward, except for the fact that he was in charge of the gems in the Ceylon section of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition London 1886.; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Hebdige; Biography: Nothing is known of this collector, who found an iron key in Dean allotments. The location of Dean allotments is not known; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Hele, Nicholas Fenwick; Biography: Aldeburgh based amateur antiquarian and archaeologist. He was also a surgeon and writer and interested in natural history matters.; Dates: No specific dates known; Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snape_boat_grave; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Hellyer, Josiah; Biography: Earthenware Manufacturer of Coxside, Plymouth, Devon. Mentioned in Pigot's Directory of 1822-23 for Plymouth.; Dates: by 1820 - 1887; Collection: Second collection

Hendley, Thomas Holbein; Biography: Surgeon Major in the Indian Medical Service from 1869, his highest rank was Surgeon-Colonel. Obviously very interested in ceramics, enamelling and lacquerwork as he gave some lacquered objects to Pitt-Rivers and also published 4 books about Indian art. He served in Jaipur from 1873-1897 and from 1894-7 he was Administrative Medical Officer for Rajputana. In 1897 he was appointed Inspector-General of Hospitals for NW Provinces and in 1898 the same post for Bengal, he retired in 1903. He was Honorary Secretary of the Economic and Industrial Museum at Jaipur. See Giles Tillotson, 'The Jaipur Exhibition of 1883' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Series 3, 14, 2 (2004), pp. 111-126.; Dates: 1847-1917; Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Holbein_Hendley; Collection: Second collection

Henriquez, Mr; Biography: Dealer, nothing further is known. He was the source of several Danish arrowheads; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Henson, Samuel; Biography: of 227 Strand, London. He took over the family mineral business in 1873, it was at the above address from 1878-1888, when it moved to Regent Street. He was a member of Mineralogical Society and Geological Association.; Dates: 1848-1930; Source: http://www.minrec.org/labels.asp?colid=571; Collection: Second collection

Herrington, C.; Biography: Nothing is known of this source except that he was resident in Salisbury in Wiltshire and sold a bicycle. A C. Herrington or Harrington does not seem to appear in the 1891 or 1901 censuses for Wiltshire or Dorset; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Herrington, R.; Biography: Worked or owned Blagdon Farm, Cranborne Dorset, nothing further is known. He cannot be identified to date in the relevant censuses; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Herz; Biography: A dealer of pottery goods from 171 Wardour Street, London; nothing further is known. It is possibly Solomon Herz listed in the 1901 census as aged 44, naturalized from Germany, based in St James Westminster, a 'dealer in ... works'. There are a number of other Herzs in the census if this is not the one.; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Hewett, Mr; Biography: No Hewett connected with the archaeology of Kilcrea Castle can be identified, the name might be a mistranscription of Hewitt [though no link there can be identified either].; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Hicks, E. C.; Biography: Presumably this collector was based in Chester, Cheshire, nothing further is known of him. He might be related to F. W. Hicks [qv], who also came from that City. It is just possible that this is the Edward Charles Hicks who was Superintendent of the Police at Broxton, Cheshire in 1910 (according to the Kelly's Directory of that year).; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Hicks, F. W.; Biography: Presumably this collector was based in Chester, Cheshire, nothing further is known of him. He might be related to E.C. Hicks [qv], who also came from that City.; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Higgins, E.; Biography: Nothing is known of this collector who is associated with objects from Cape York, Queensland and Mer Island in Australia; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Hill, John; Biography: London based firearm manufacturer, according to the accession book he made firearms from 1825-1856.; Dates: Unknown, active 1825-1856; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Hill, W.; Biography: Blacksmith at Rushmore, nothing else known. He is associated with a sword, knife and iron figure; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Hinton, Thomas; Biography: Nothing is known of this previous owner of a jug; Dates: Unknown active 1776; Collection: Second collection

Hiscock, Francis Rogers; Biography: Farmer at Rookery Farm, Farnham on Cranborne Chase. The following website states: "Rookery Farm is next to the Larmer Tree Gardens owned by General Pitt-Rivers and which in the 1890's was the scene of revolutionary entertainment events which Francis must have attended. My ancestor was certainly invited to one of the General's events as his name appears on the guest list from the Pitt- Rivers collection. General Pitt-River was a paternalist of the old-school Victorian nature and took an interest in educating children of local labourers and gypsies. Francis was a tenant farmer on Pitt-River's land and we have copies of his rent payments schedule in the late 19th century. ... I do not know how Francis came to meet Emily Riman when he was from East Stour and she from Handley ... However they met ... and ... travelled to the USA to marry when she was just 17 and he 22. They then returned to Handley working in the timber trade which he probably developed in the USA. They later settled at Rookery Farm (a farm with an attachment to the Chase woods and timber trade) nearby where they would remain for the next 20+ years." He died in 1903 aged 53.; Dates: 1849-1903; Source: http://www.southwilts.com/site/My-family-history-by-Mark-Wareham/Hiscock-family.htm; Collection: Second collection

Hiscock, Frank; Biography: Son of Francis Rogers Hiscock, qv. He was born in 1878 and married Elizabeth Allen in 1898 according to family records.; Dates: No specific dates known; Source: http://www.southwilts.com/site/My-family-history-by-Mark-Wareham/Hiscock-tree.htm; Collection: Second collection

Hitchcock, Edward; Biography: An assistant on the Vermont state geological survey under his father before becoming Professor of Hygiene and Physical Education or Geology at Amherst. Member of International Congress of Prehistoric Archaeology.; Dates: 1828-1911; Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hitchcock; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Hoare, H.; Biography: Worker at gravel pit at Stage Lodge, Almer near Wimborne. Nothing known is known of him; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Hocken, Thomas Morland; Biography: Doctor, historian, collector and bibliographer from New Zealand.; Dates: 1836-1910; Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hocken; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Hodges, W.D.; Biography: W.D. Hodges of 247 & 249 Brompton Road, South Kensington appear to have been furniture dealers.; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Hogg, Caroline Elizabeth Emma; Biography: nee Douglas Pennant married James Macnaghten McGarel Hogg, 1st Baron Magheramorne (1823-1890), near neighbour of Pitt-Rivers in Grosvenor Gardens, London. By 1892 she was Dowager Lady Magheramorne; Dates: 1834-1924; Source: http://genealogy.links.org/links-cgi/readged?/home/ben/camilla-genealogy/current+c-douglas17764+2-2-0-1-0; Collection: Second collection

Hoitsu, Sakai; Biography: Japanese painter; Dates: 1761-1828; Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakai_Hoitsu; Collection: Second collection

Holt, H.F.; Biography: Nothing known of this previous owner of an ivory figure from China and a Japanese figure, obtained via Christie's. A H.F. Holt published an article in the journal of Geological studies relating to earthquakes in Formosa [Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society; 1868; v. 24; issue.1-2; p. 510;], this might be the same person. He is said to have been the HM Consul at Tamsuy (or Tamsui), now known as Danshui Township, Taipei, Taiwan.; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Hooker, Joseph Dalton; Biography: Botanist. Assistant director of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 1855, director from 1865.; Dates: 1817-1911; Source: www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33970; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Hope, Thomas; Biography: According to the BM biographical database: Anglo-Dutch art collector and connoisseur, from the family of bankers. Travelled in Italy and Greece 1787-97; family moved to England after French invasion of Holland in 1794. Town house in Duchess Street off Portland Place (finished 1802, demolished 1851 and contents moved to The Deepdene); country house in The Deepdene (bought 1807 and then remodelled), for both of which he designed interiors and the furniture, and furnished with his collection of classical vases and sculpture. Published 'Household Furniture and Interior Decoration', 1807. His collection at Deepdene dispersed by his descendants in 1917. [see 'Thomas Hope: Designer and Patron in Regency London' David Watkins Yale University Press]; Dates: 1769-1831; Source: http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/furniture/thomas_hope/thomas_hope_family_grand_tour/index.html; Collection: Second collection

Hopkins, Edward Martin; Biography: Worked for Hudson's Bay Company and shared George Simpson's voyage round world.; Dates: 1820-1893; Source: http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=7197; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Hopkins, Mrs; Biography: Nothing is known of this vendor, except she lived in Bournemouth and presumably had some connect to Wimborne as she sold some objects from there; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Horne, C.; Biography: Possibly a colonial servant and a member of Royal Asiatic Society. The items he was associated with came from British India.; Dates: Unknown Active 1886-1895?; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Hossman, Wilhelm; Biography: Dealer of Munich; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Hotel Bernina; Biography: of the Engadine valley, Switzerland. Nothing further is known; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Howarth, Osbert H.; Biography: Seems to have lived on Madeira and also been interested in Mexican archaeology, otherwise little is known of this collector.; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Howorth, Henry Hoyle; Biography: Lived at Derby House, Eccles, Manchester and was a lawyer, historian, antiquarian, ethnographer and geologist. Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Society, President of the Royal Archaeological Institute and the Viking Society. Vice President of the Asiatic Society and the Numismatic Society. He was also a Conservative politician and MP for South Salford, from 1886-1900.; Dates: 1842-1923; Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hoyle_Howorth; Collection: Second collection

Hudson Bay Co.; Biography: Trading company in Canada.; Dates: Not relevant; Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson's_Bay_Company; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Hudson, Sergeant Major; Biography: Nothing is known of this British Army soldier except he obtained his artefact from Cetshwayo kaMpande [qv] compound; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Hudson, William Henry; Biography: Author and naturalist born in Argentina.; Dates: 1841-1922; Source: www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34038; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Hughes, Thomas McKenny; Biography: Woodwardian Professor of Geology at Cambridge University.; Dates: 1832-1917; Source: www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/37580; Collection: Second collection

Hulme, Mr; Biography: Nothing is known of this person, the item he gave Pitt-Rivers was from South Africa; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Hunt, Charles; Biography: Builder and general contractor, Blandford Forum Dorset. In the 1895 Kelly's Directory he is described as 'an architect, surveyor and secretary and manager of Blandford Gas and Coke Company'. In the 1901 census he is aged 55, described as 'Architect Surveyor Gas Works Manager' born in Blandford St Mary.; Dates: ?1847-?; Collection: Second collection

Hunt, Dr; Biography: Nothing is known of this collector who is associated with archaeological artefacts from Amiens, France; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Hunt, Mrs Edgell; Biography: Apparently had a collection of Oceanian, Australian and South American ethnography. The items were obtained via George Fabian Lawrence [qv]. Nothing further is known of her. It is just possible that she is Emily Priscilla Edgell Hunt who died in 1898 (when Lawrence sold the objects to Pitt-Rivers, so her possessions might have been sold on by her relatives); on the other hand she might also be the wife of Herbert Edgell Hunt who was an engineer / railway engineer and died in 1896. Both lived in London; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Second collection

Hunter, R. H. C.; Biography: Nothing is known of this collector who is associated with an object from the Banks Islands; Dates: No specific dates known; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Hutchinson, Thomas Joseph; Biography: Anglo-Irish physician, he travelled in West Africa and was a member of the Niger expedidtion in 1854-55. After six years as British Consul in various places in Africa he transferred to the Consul in Rosario, Argentina. He was a travel writer and keen ethnographer.; Dates: ?1802-1885; Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Joseph_Hutchinson; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Hutton, James Frederick; Biography: Manchester-based businessman, Conservative politician and collector.; Dates: 1828-1890; Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Frederick_Hutton; Collection: Second collection

Huxley, Thomas Henry; Biography: Biologist and science educationalist. Travelled on Rattlesnake expedition.; Dates: 1825-1895; Source: www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14320; Collection: Founding collection, PRM

Hyams, Frank; Biography: Frank Hyams was based at 167 New Bond Street, London. He was a silver and gold maker. He was also based at 14 Princes Street Dunedin, New Zealand, he was described as a 'well-known jeweller'.; Dates: fl 1899-1932; Collection: Second collection

Compiled by AP during RPR project 2009-2012