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Description: | The Reverend Alfred Valentine Valentine-Richards MA (1866-1933) came up to ChristÃ's college, Cambridge in 1885, taking a first class degree in the Theological Tripos in 1890. He returned to ChristÃ's as a fellow and lecturer in 1904 and became dean of the college in 1906.
Valentine-Richards was well known as a connoisseur and collector of china, glass, and silver. He also owned noteworthy pictures and a Ãfine collectionÃ' of furniture, which occupied his rooms incollege along with the Alpine books related to his avid membership of the Cambridge University Mountaineering Club and Cambridge Alpine Club.
Approximately 150 items from the Valentine-Richards collection entered the Fitzwilliam Museum, especially items of glassware: the Valentine-Richards collection is prominently discussed in Glass Collectors and their Collections in Museums in Great Britain (1999) by Fitzwilliam Museum Applied Arts curator Julia Poole. | Format: | physical | Subjects: | Ceramics Furniture Glass Silver | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 01223 332 923 | Telephone: | 01223 332 900 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:8394 | Format: | physical | Go to resource |
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