Newspaper cutting
Category
Ephemera
Date
29 Nov 1968
Materials
Newspaper
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 3131321.6
Summary
Five newspaper cuttings kept in the book 'The story of the pilgrim fathers, 1606-1623 A.D. . as told by themselves, their friends, and their enemies ; edited from the original texts, by Edward Arber....' by Edward Arber (1836-1912) (record 3131321). Taken from 'THE TIMES FRIDAY NOVEMBER 29 1968'; 'British carving of 5,000 years ago BY OUR ARCHAEOLOGICAL CORRESPONDENT The first full account of the earliest piece of plastic art known from Britain, a wooden figure found last year in the Somerset peat, and dating to about 2900 B.C., will be published in the archaeological journal Antiquity on Sunday....' Arber was born in London. From 1854 he 1878 he worked as a clerk in the Admiralty, and began evening classes at King's College London in 1858. From 1878 to 1881 he studied English literature, under H. Morley, at University College London; and from 1881 to 1894 he was professor of English at Mason College (which later became Birmingham University). From 1894 he lived in London as emeritus professor, being also a fellow of King's College London. In 1905 he received the honorary degree of D. Litt. from the University of Oxford. He married in 1869, and had two sons, one of whom, E. A. N. Arber, became demonstrator in paleobotany at the University of Cambridge.