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Collector · Donor

Henry Spencer Ashbee

1834–1900 · United Kingdom

Businessperson. Left a bequest to Victoria and Albert Museum.

Life and work

  1. 1901
    His bequest of Cypriot antiquities was received by the Victoria and Albert Museum; it was transferred to the British Museum in 1980.

    LondonTatton-Brown 2001, p. 170

Sources

  1. 1.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.
  2. 2.“Henry Spencer Ashbee (1834-1900), book collector, writer, bibliographer”. Wikidata / GND. Online