Curator
Herbert Ricketts
1879–1956 · United Kingdom
British curator. Employed John Manwaring Baines; succeeded Henry Crowther.
Life and work
- 1928Succeeded Henry Crowther as curator at Leeds, having been deputy curator at Sunderland and West Hartlepool; with assistant curator J. M. Baines (1931-35) introduced new cases and a Museum Window
- March 1941Led the rescue of the collections after the bomb hit the Philosophical Hall; compared it to an archaeological dig; the Cypriot antiquities were badly damaged
Connections
2 peopleFieldwork & employment
- Employed John Manwaring Baines1931–1935
Colleagues & contacts
- Succeeded Henry Crowther1928
Sources
- 1.Anna Holly Reeve (2021). “Ancient Cyprus in Leeds: Objects, Networks and Museums from 1870 to 1947”. PhD thesis, University of Leeds.