Benjamin Henry Mullen
| Benjamin Henry Mullen MA (Dub.), FRASAI | |||||||||
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| Residence | Royal Museum, Peel Park, Salford | ||||||||
| Occupation | museum work | ||||||||
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Office Notes
House Notes
1897.03.30 proposed by W.H. Read
Notes From Elsewhere
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