Herbert Spencer Harrison
| Dr Herbert Spencer Harrison Dsc | |||||||
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| Born | 1872 | ||||||
| Died | 1958 | ||||||
| Residence |
Horniman Museum, Forest Hill [and]; 8 Gaynesford Road, Forest Hill, SE23 [1921] | ||||||
| Occupation | museum work | ||||||
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Office Notes
RAI Council 1910 Member
RAI Council 1911 Member
RAI Council 1912-13 Member
RAI Council 1914 Member
RAI Council 1915 Member
RAI Council 1916 Hon. Secretary
RAI Council 1917 Hon. Secretary
RAI Council 1918 Hon. Secretary
RAI Council 1919 Hon. Secretary
RAI Council 1920 Member
RAI Council 1921 Editor
RAI Council 1922 Editor
RAI Council 1923 Editor
RAI Council 1924 Editor
RAI Council 1925 Editor
RAI Council 1926 Member
RAI Council 1927 Member
RAI Council 1928 Member
RAI Council 1929 Vice President
RAI Council 1930-31 Vice President
RAI Council 1931-32 Vice President
RAI Council 1932-33 Member
RAI Council 1933-34 Member
RAI Council 1934-35 Member
RAI Council 1935-36 President
RAI Council 1936-37 President
House Notes
Proposed by Henry Balfour; seconded by T.A. Joyce 1904.11.22
Curator, Horniman Museum
born 19 Oct. 1872
1958.08 deceased
1958.10.02 death noted
Notes From Elsewhere
curator (1873 - 1958)
Born in Wolverton in 1872 and educated at King Edward School, Aston. He studied at the Royal College of Science in London and then Freiburg before obtaining a Diploma of Science in 1902. He became the Curator of the Horniman Museum in 1904 and remained in this position until retiring due to ill health in 1937. Harrison was responsible for reorganizing and extending the collections, introducing a scheme of lectures and a number of small popular guides to the collections written by Harrison himself. He also served as honorary secretary of the Royal Anthropological Institute and edited its Journal for a number of years.
1904-1937 active in
Curator of the Horniman Museum
Publications
External Publications
Pots and pans, 1928; From stone to steel, 1906 and other Horniman Museum guides
House Publications
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