Ashton Lever
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| Born | 5 March 1729 Alkrington Hall, England, Kingdom of Great Britain |
| Died | 28 January 1788 (aged 58) Kingdom of Great Britain |
| Occupation | British antiquarian |
Sir Ashton Lever FRS (5 March 1729 – 28 January 1788) was an English collector of natural objects, in particular the Leverian collection.[1]
Biography
Lever was born in 1729 at Alkrington Hall. In 1735 Sir James Darcy Lever, his father, served as High Sheriff of Lancashire.[1]
Lever began by collecting
Holophusicon opened to the public in Leicester Square. Captain James Cook
was impressed by Lever's collection, and donated objects from his own voyages to the museum.
Lever continued to buy items until he became
James Parkinson, later put the collection up for auction in 1806, when the largest purchasers were the British naturalist Edward Donovan and Leopold von Fichtel, bidding on behalf of the Natural History Museum, Vienna. Purchasers included the Earl of Derby and William Bullock
, who had a large private collection.
Lever's collection was catalogued by George Shaw.
References
- ^ a b Ashton Lever, Manchester celebrities], retrieved 31 August 2010
Further reading
- Waterfield, Hermione; King, J. C. H. (2006). Provenance: Collectors of Ethnographic Art in England 1760–1990. Paris: Somogy éditions d'art. ISBN 0-304-36333-2.
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