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Museum buyer

Mr Beckworth (Leeds)

fl. 1882 · United Kingdom

British museum buyer, active in 1882. Worked at Leeds. Bought from John Holmes.

Life and work

  1. January 1882
    As Chairman of the Leeds Free Library Committee, brought John Holmes's offer to sell his collection (price £250) to the Council; the Council voted 35 to 13 to buy it, founding the Leeds Free Public Museum

    LeedsReeve 2021, pp. 146-148

Connections

1 person

Sales, gifts & bequests

Sources

  1. 1.Anna Holly Reeve (2021). “Ancient Cyprus in Leeds: Objects, Networks and Museums from 1870 to 1947”. PhD thesis, University of Leeds.