Charles Heape

Charles Heape
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Born	1848
Died	1926
Residence	Glebe House, Rochdale [1885] 19 George Street, Manchester [1894] Glebe House, Rochdale [1897] Hartley, High Lane, near Stockport [1900] High Lane, near Stockport [1907]
Occupation	business
Society Membership membership Ordinary fellow left 1926 deceased elected_AI 1885.06.23 clubs Royal Societies Club Union Club Manchester Club societies Royal Geographical Society Biblical Archaeological Society Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society Rochdale Literary & Scientific Society

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1885.06.09 proposed for election at next meeting
A18/8/799d [insert] KMM to J.R. Heape, 10 May 1926 - regrets death of Charles Heape; assumes Williams Deacons Bank will cease paying his subscription

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the Heape family who helped to create Rochdale Art Gallery and Museum, generously gifting paintings and Egyptian artefacts to set up the collections. Charles Heape, an avid collector from the age of 10, was personal friends with the famous pioneering Egyptologist Sir William Mathew Flinders Petrie. His support meant that over 1,600 items from Petrie’s excavations were received by the museum, many of which are over 5,000 years old. His uncle, Robert Taylor Heape, gave over 100 paintings to the Art Gallery
[Manchester Museum] The collection totals about 16,000 artefacts, nearly half of which are from Africa. Material from Oceania makes up a quarter and much of the remainder comes from Asia and the Americas. The first large donation came from Robert Dukinfield Darbishire (1826–1908), beginning in 1904/05. Darbishire gave about 700 items, including ceramics from Peru and Eskimo carvings. In 1922, Charles Heape donated his Oceanian and American collection amounting to about 1500 items. It included a collection of weapons and paddles from the Pacific islands, collected by missionaries and others, though some items from the Aborigines of Victoria were acquired while Heape was resident. The Lloyd collection of Japanese metalwork, carvings and ceramics were the bequest of R. W. Lloyd. There are two collections obtained in the field by professional anthropologists. Frank Willett collected pottery, masks and ritual regalia in Nigeria in 1956 and Peter Worsley collected basketry and other items from the Wanindiljaugwa people of Groote Eylandt, Australia in 1952

Spent many years in Australia. Also travelled widely in countries bordering the Mediterranean for his health. Partner in Strines Calico Printing Company. Collector of Oceanic objects. Jointly published with Edge-Partington a three-volume work on the material culture of Oceania (1890-98). He gave a large collection of objects from Oceania, North America and Australia to the Manchester Museum, University of Manchester in 1923 and donated a collection of Egyptian objects to the Rochdale Museum. Much involved with United Methodist Church and Scout movement. Honorary MSc from Manchester University

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Charles Heape Collection
In 1922, the University [of Manchester] received a letter from Charles Heape, a landowner and businessman from Rochdale, offering the Museum his collection of artefacts from Oceania, North America and other areas; some fifteen hundred items. Many were weapons from islands in the South Pacific and reflected his aim to make a comprehensive collection of weapons and paddles from the South Pacific islanders. Heape, born in 1848, spent some of his early years in Australia. Some of the Aboriginal clubs, shields and boomerangs he collected are of a type found in Victoria and may have been acquired while he was in Australia. Most of his Pacific Island material was procured from missionaries and others who had been in that area in the 19thC, but we do not have any records of his collecting in the field.
Indigenous Australian Illustration,
Ethnographical Album of the Pacific Islands, Charles Heape,
1898/ [Wellcome Collection]