Number 5 - Geological Curators Group

BIGOT, Prof. [A. P. D. (1863-1953)l. Somespecimens of deslonechamos and Q.lotharinsica from the Lower Callovian ofCalvados are labelled 'from Prof. Bigot17.1.'08'; this is A. P. D. Bigot (Cleeveley1983).BUBB, E. Maude. Presumed to be the widow ofHenry Bubb (born 1847) JP of Ullenwood, nr.Cheltenham (see entry for Wright). Henrydisappears from CNFC members lists between1929 and 1930.BUCKMAN, Sydney Savory (1860-1929). The famousJurassic stratigrapher, who donated somespecimens to the museum (4th ReDort CHLGM, for1903-1904, p.24), including the type ofDenckmannia bredonensis Buckman (1903)originally given to him by Newton (see below).CALLOWAY, Charles (1838-1915). Calloway was animportant local geologist and friend ofLinsdall Richardson. On his death hisgeological collection was offered to the TownMuseum (Torrens 1988b) and accepted, asconfirmed by an entry of 'rock specimens andmaps' under his name. The Cheltenhamcollection is thus worth checking for any'lost' specimens, such as the six missingbrachiopods figured by Davidson (1883-1884)(also Torrens 1976; Cocks 1978).CORNFORD, Rev. [Edward] [1833-18981. In 1903Mrs Cornford presented 'a large oak cabinetcontaining the local fossils collected by herlate husband Rev. E. Cornford' (4th mCHLGM, for 1903-1904, p.24). This is thecollection of the late Rev. E. Cornford firstdonated to the CNFC in 1897 (Colchester-Wemyss1898) which the Club Secretary, S. S. Buckman,passed to CHLGM in 1903 (correspondence inCHLGM archives). The collection may have beendispersed later to St Paul's by C. R. Mapp.GRAY, Joseph William (died 1935). Gray wasactively interested in the local Quaternarydeposits (Gardiner and Herdman 1935) anddonated a collection of Drift material fromthe Cotswold-Malvern region (Gray 1927). Healso donated other material, such as lava fromMount Erebus.HOLLAND, Harriet Sophia ( c. 1835-1908), later(after 1865) Mrs HUTTON. Harriet SaphiaHutton nee Holland, was the eldest daughter ofthe Lord of the Manor at Dumbletan,Gloucestershire (Torrens 1978b; Cleevely1983). Her collection from the Upper, Middleand Lower Lias of the quarries near DumbletonHill, especially at Alderton Hill and Gretton,was well known (Guise 1865; Wright 1865;Richardson 1929). At least part of thiscollection appears now to be at Cheltenham,including some interesting Upper Liassicinsects and the type of richardsoniH. B. Woodward (see above). An 'importantgift of rare fossils found at Dumbleton Hill,Glos., was made by Miss Holland' (11thD, for 1910-1911) after H. S. Hutton'sdeath; this Miss Holland was her daughter(see below). Butt (1909, p.198) reported thatthe Holland collection was then intact atHarescombe Grange and that Richardsan wasworking on it. Her material came to themuseum via Richardson soon afterwards (alsosee H. B. Woodward 1911). It is not now clearwhich specimens were Holland's, but some,particularly some of the insects, show amarkedly older style of label or numbered tag.HUTTON, Harriet Mary (1873-1937). Harriet MaryHutton was the daughter ofHarriet Sophia Hutton (c.1835-1908; seeabove) and a noted amateur collector in herown right (Torrens 1978h; Cleevely 1983).She lived near Stroud and then Dursley,concentrating on the Inferior Oolite of thoseareas. Her collection contained muchscientifically important material which wasapportioned on her death between the BritishMuseum (Natural History), Gloucester CityMuseum, and Reading University. The BM(NH),then Gloucester, Straud District Museum andfinally Cheltenham are said to have takentheir pick of the remainder, but there is norecord of any such accession at Cheltenham.Other material is in the J. W. Tutchercollection, Bristol City Museum (R. D. Clark,pers. comm. 1988).LINGWOOD, [Robert Maulkin (c.1813-1887)J. ALingwood donated King Arthur's Cave material,together with the Rev. Cornford. He waspresumably either the botanist andentomologist Robert Maulkin Lingwood (Cleevely1983), whose gravestone in Leckhamptonchurchyard records his death on 2 June 1887,aged 74, or possibly Richard Sole Lingwood whois recorded on another gravestone as havingdied on 17 December 1873, aged 60; the latterwas an Annual Subscriber to the CLPI from 1843to 1848. These two Lingwoods are clearlyrelatives as R. M. Lingwaod married anElizabeth Sole in 1836.MAPP, Charles R. (1887?-1955). Mapp wasLecturer in Geology and Geography at St Paul'sTraining College (now the College of St Pauland St Mary). He bequeathed a wide range ofgeological, Egyptological, oriental andethnographical material to Bristol CityMuseum, and most of his library toW. W. Jervis, Professor of Geology at theUniversity of Bristol, and possibly othermaterial to Derby City Museum (BRSMG GeologyFile MAP 1; Cleevely 1983). Much of hisgeological material went to St Paul's College(Dr J. Angseesing, pers. corm. 1984) and samemay have gone to Cheltenham Museum.NEWTON, Isaac (fl. 1903-1921). A Surgeon-Majorin the Indian Army Medical Service, he donatedfossil material which certainly included theholotype of Denckmannia bredonensisS. S. Buckman, 1903 (Cleevely 1983; hut notin the museum's accession records). Hedisappears from CNFC members lists between1921 and 1922.PAINE, A. E. W. (died 1929) [Anon. 1930,p.2031. In 1930 'Miss E. A. Paine donated allthe 8,000 Cotteswolds flints collected by herbrother, the late Mr A. E. W. Paine' (m.Cotteswald Nat. Fld Club, 24, p.16). Theseare mostly worked flints and appear to becurated as part of the archaeologicalcollections. S. S. Buckman named the ammonitePaineia (= Brasilia S. S. Buckman) after him.