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'''William Blackmore'''
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ESL Council 1866-67 Member<br />ESL Council 1867-68 Member<br />ESL Council 1868-69 Member<br />ESL Council 1869-70 Member<br /><br />AI Council 1871 Member<br />AI Council 1872 Vice President<br />AI Council 1874 Member<br />AI Council 1875 Member<br />AI Council 1876 Member
=== House Notes ===
Report of Council for 1878 - obit<br />1878.05.14 death noted<br />same address [Shepley House, Carshalton] as Alfred Tylor<br /><br />1878.05.14 The Council of the Anthropological Institute beg to express their sincere regret on the death of Mr Wm Blackmore and their sympathy with his family. Besides those eminent services Mr Blackmore rendered to Anthropology by his munificent gift to the City of Salisbury of the Blackmore Library and Museum and his labours for the investigation of the prehistoric antiquities of America, the Council are mindful of his official cooperation with them as a Member of the Council and with the former Ethnological Society of which he was a Vice President<br />obituary in Report of Council for 1878
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
William Henry Blackmore (2 August 1827 - 12 April 1878) was an English lawyer who gained a fortune by exploiting a large social network as an investment promoter. He used his fortune for philanthropy, primarily centred on his interest in Native Americans, but came to a tragic end as the result of a failed investment deal related to the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad<br />Founder of the Blackmore Museum<br />Originating from the 1860's, the Blackmore Museum was founded by Salisbury businessman William Blackmore to house a collection of archaeological finds from Ohio, USA. The collection stayed at the Blackmore Museum until the 1960's. In the late 1980's, the conversion was completed to create four apartments.<br />
