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Benjamin Henry Mullen


Benjamin Henry Mullen
MA (Dub.), FRASAI
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Residence Royal Museum, Peel Park, Salford
Occupation museum work
Society Membership
membership ordinary fellow
left 1901 last listed
elected_AI 1897.04.13
societies Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland



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1897.03.30 proposed by W.H. Read

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Salford Museum and Art Gallery, in Peel Park, Salford, Greater Manchester, opened to the public in November 1850 as the Royal Museum and Public Library, was the first "unconditionally free" public library in the United Kingdom.[1] The gallery and museum are devoted to the history of Salford and Victorian art and architecture.

Mr. Benjamin H. Mullen, M.A.. the curator and chief librarian of Salford, has been elected Fellow the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland [May 1894]

Born Dublin. Director of Museums and Libraries, Salford from 1892. See J.L. Myres, ‘Notes on the ethnographical collections of the Royal Museum, Peel Park, Salford’, Man 2 (1902), pp. 37-8.

Publications

External Publications

Salford and the Inauguration of the Public Free Libraries Movement
1899
by Ben H Mullen

A tremendous awakening, or, My dead prayer book brought to life
by Benjamin Henry Mullen

House Publications

Fetishes from Landana, South-West Africa
Man 1905

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