Mary Tilson lived in the early – mid 18th century. In 1732, she married Henry Wise, second surviving son and namesake of Royal gardener Henry Wise and his wife Patience. ...
The geological collections of the Warwickshire Museum were initiated by the Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society during the 19th century.
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Amongst the many curiosities collected back then are a small ...
One of the aims of the Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society was to publish annual proceedings: a record of research into our county’s natural sciences and human history.
Many important ...
The mid 19th century was truly the heyday of the Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society. During this period they benefited from the enthusiastic and generous support and membership of the ...
Amongst the original collections of the Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society, the Warwickshire Museum cares for a number of tiny ‘books’ (actually decorative pieces), carved from different varieties of ...
As the first collections grew, the Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society‘s curators labelled the growing number of specimens, establishing a very basic documentation system. In those days, all object labels were ...
Amongst the museum’s mineral collections there are many polished semi-precious stones of the variety known as agate. This is a finely crystalline variety of the common mineral quartz, well known ...
This substantial map1 indicates the lands owned by the Sir Edward Bagot (1674-1712) in the Manor of Tachbrook, located just south of Warwick. The ancient manor of Tachbrook was initially ...
This map (by James Fish, dated 1691) outlines the lands owned by the Greville family in Cesters Over, located in the parish of Monks Kirkby, Warwickshire. The map indicates the ...
This highly detailed map (by William James and Assistants) illustrates the properties owned by the Earls of Warwick in Warwick at the opening of the nineteenth century. It is presumed ...
Warwickshire Museum and its geological collections owe much to the Reverend Peter Bellinger Brodie. Peter was born in 1815 and grew up in London where his father was a barrister. Peter’s ...
Warwickshire Museum holds a seed from the coco de mer palm tree and it is definitely worth a look as it is possibly one of the original specimens making up the ...
Francis Willughby was born at Middleton Hall, Warwickshire, and is known for his Ornithologia libri tres in 1676 (the English edition, The Ornithology of Francis Willoughby. In three books wherein all the Birds ...
