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Haslemere Educational Museum was founded in 1888 by the eminent surgeon Sir Jonathan Hutchinson to display his growing collection of natural history specimens. After two moves it found in 1926 a permanent home in Haslemere High Street, in the town of Haslemere, Surrey, England. The museum won a national award in 2012 [1] and is an independent ...
Margaret Massey Hutchinson (1904–1997) was an English educator, naturalist and writer of Haslemere, Surrey.She was closely involved with Haslemere Educational Museum which was founded by her grandfather Sir Jonathan Hutchinson and she established and ran a Froebel school in West Sussex for 25 years.
Haslemere Educational Museum was founded in 1888 by the surgeon, ... it acquired a collection of European Folk Art from the Peasant Arts Museum, which had been ...
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, four mummies – the priestess Hortesnakht of Akhmim, [33] the lady Rer of Saqqara, [33] an unidentified man from the 4th or 3rd century BCE (known as "the mummy from Szombathely" after the location of the previous collection he was part of) [34] and a man from the 2nd century BCE (known as "the unwrapped mummy" as he was already unwrapped when the museum ...
He was the founder of Haslemere Estates, a London-based development company, that spearheaded projects that generally went against the grain of the time(1958-1984). For example, he was involved in restoring existing buildings rather than demolishing them; he also helped find alternatives to glass and concrete edifices that were known to have a ...
Following the death of Arnold Dolmetsch at Haslemere in 1940, his family continued to promote the building and playing of early instruments. Mabel Dolmetsch (1874–1963), his third wife, was a noted player of the bass viol. She wrote "Dances of England and France 1450 - 1600" which includes tunes set by Arnold Dolmetsch.
McCulloch's art collection included a number of paintings by Coutts Michie, [4] Home from the Hill, now in the Broken Hill Art Gallery NSW, Portrait of Mrs George McCulloch, Harvest, Autumn Sunshine, and a sketch of Mrs Alexander McCulloch. At the time of his death on 18 December 1919 Coutts Michie was living at Oak Hall in Haslemere, England.
Hedley Fitton (c. 1858 – 19 July 1929) was an English engraver and printmaker noted mainly for his architectural etchings.His etchings included street scenes and important cathedrals in London, Florence, Edinburgh, Manchester, [1] and Paris.