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CodePX1925
Dates1858-1929
Person NameThomas; Michael Rogers Oldfield (1858-1929); Curator of Mammals, British Museum (Natural History)
SurnameThomas
ForenamesMichael Rogers Oldfield
EpithetCurator of Mammals, British Museum (Natural History)
ActivityMuseum staff: Appointed 2nd class assistant in Department of Zoology, 1878. 2nd class assistant in Secretary's Office, 1876. Curator of mammals.
Oldfield Thomas grew up in South Africa, returning to England for schooling at Haileybury. He secured a clerkship in the Secretaries office at the British Museum in 1876, and transferred to the Zoology Department as an Assistant in 1878. After a short period working with the invertebrates, he was given charge of the mammal collection. In 1895 his post became part of the Vertebrate Section of the Department, under R Bowdler Sharpe, and in 1922 the Mammal Section was set up. Thomas continued to work regularly at the Museum until shortly before his death in 1929.
He identified and named over 2000 specimens and personally funded many collectors.
During his time at the Museum he had requested a lift to his office but this was denied. On his death he bequested £1000 to the Natural History Museum 'for the express purpose of constructing a light passenger lift available for the purposes of the staff'.
Tring Correspondent.
Catalogue
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DF/TM/1/39/12Correspondence T: Thomas
DF/ZOO/230/4/288O T [Oldfield Thomas]
DF/ZOO/200/70/59Thomas, Michael Rogers Oldfield (London)
DF/ZOO/230/4/448Boulenger, George A and Thomas, M R Oldfield
DF/ENT/340/23/3Thomas, Oldfield
DF/ADM/1004/91Bequests: M R O Thomas' zoological specimens (Mammalia)
DF/ZOO/232/1/16Thomas, Michael Rogers Oldfield: Correspondence
DF/ZOO/232/6/11/11/9Lockwood, C.
DF/ZOO/200/59/54Thomas, Michael Rogers Oldfield (Bognor)
DF/ADM/1022/3/5/12Oldfield Thomas Collecting Fund account book
DF/ZOO/232/1/17Thomas, Michael Rogers Oldfield: Correspondence
DF/ZOO/232/1/20Thomas, Michael Rogers Oldfield: Correspondence
DF/ZOO/200/34/367Thomas, Michael Rogers Oldfield
DF/ZOO/232/1/6Thomas, Michael Rogers Oldfield: Correspondence
DF/TM/1/31/6Correspondence T: Taschenberg; Taylor; Thiery; Thomas
DF/ZOO/232/1/8/13Batty, J H
DF/TR/1/1/28/588Thomas, [Michael] [Rogers] Oldfield
DF/ZOO/232/1/8Thomas, Michael Rogers Oldfield: Correspondence
DF/TM/1/47/2Correspondence T: Théry; Thienemann; Thomas
DF/ZOO/230/4/361O T [Oldfield Thomas]
DF/ZOO/232/1/7Thomas, Michael Rogers Oldfield: Correspondence
DF/ZOO/232/1/5Thomas, Michael Rogers Oldfield: Correspondence
DF/ZOO/230/2/348Thomas, Oldfield
DF/ZOO/232/1/19Thomas, Michael Rogers Oldfield: Correspondence
DF/TM/1/59/21Correspondence T: Thienemann; Thomas; Thomasson
DF/ZOO/200/28/363-364Thomas, Michael Rogers Oldfield
DF/TM/1/10/9Correspondence T: Thery; Thomas; Thornton
DF/ZOO/232/1/21Thomas, Michael Rogers Oldfield: Correspondence
DF/TM/1/23/17Correspondence T: Thomas; Thomson; Thynne
DF/ZOO/232/1/23Thomas, Michael Rogers Oldfield: Correspondence
DF/ZOO/200/14/457-459Rosenbush, [C]
DF/ZOO/232/1/8/7Bangs, Outram
DF/ZOO/232/1/8/6Ansorge, W
DF/ZOO/232/6/9/5/3Ehrhardt, W.
DF/ZOO/200/23/446Thomas, [Michael Rogers] Oldfield
DF/ZOO/232/6/10/1/7Allen, Doctor W.
DF/ZOO/232/1/2Thomas, Michael Rogers Oldfield: Correspondence, A-K
DF/ZOO/232/1/22Thomas, Michael Rogers Oldfield: Correspondence
DF/ZOO/232/6/5/7/16Thomas, M. Oldfield
DF/ZOO/232/6/6/12/3Thomas, O.
DF/ZOO/232/6/11/19/1Shortridge, Captain G.C.
DF/EXH/705/2/1Oldfield Thomas Lift
DF/ZOO/232/1/10Thomas, Michael Rogers Oldfield: Correspondence
DF/ZOO/232/1/3Thomas, Michael Rogers Oldfield: Correspondence, L-R
DF/ZOO/232/1/11Thomas, Michael Rogers Oldfield: Correspondence
DF/ZOO/232/1/12Thomas, Michael Rogers Oldfield: Correspondence
DF/ZOO/200/15/229-231Hunt, Arthur Roope
DF/ZOO/200/22/334Thomas, [Michael Rogers] Oldfield
DF/ZOO/200/36/265Latham, F E B
DF/ZOO/200/25/97a-98Farmiloe, T and W
DF/ZOO/200/25/317-318Sanderson, George P
DF/ZOO/200/29/406-407Thomas, [Michael Rogers] Oldfield
DF/ZOO/200/52/344Thomas, [Michael Rogers Oldfield]
DF/ZOO/235/1/1/7/246Thomas, Michael. Rogers. Oldfield
DF/ZOO/232/1/18Thomas, Michael Rogers Oldfield: Correspondence
DF/ZOO/232/1/1Thomas, Michael Rogers Oldfield: Correspondence
DF/ZOO/232/1/24Thomas, Michael Rogers Oldfield: Correspondence
DF/ZOO/232/1/8/3American Museum of Natural History
DF/ZOO/232/1/8/11Barrett-Hamilton
DF/ZOO/232/1/4Thomas, Michael Rogers Oldfield: Correspondence, S-Z
DF/ZOO/232/1/13Thomas, Michael Rogers Oldfield: Correspondence
DF/ZOO/235/1/1/1/669[Saranidy], H.
DF/TR/1/1/24/462Thomas, [Michael] [Rogers] Oldfield
DF/TR/1/1/26/276Ihering, [Hermann] von
DF/ZOO/232/1/9Thomas, Michael Rogers Oldfield: Correspondence
DF/TR/1/1/25/448Thomas, [Michael] [Rogers] Oldfield
DF/TR/1/1/29/626Thomas, [Michael] [Rogers] Oldfield
DF/ZOO/232/6/1/1/11Thomas, M. Oldfield
DF/ZOO/232/6/8/4/18Jordan, K.
DF/ZOO/232/6/6/12/15Walker, S.N.
DF/ZOO/232/6/11/10/5King-King, K. E. Esq.
DF/ZOO/200/178Godman and Oldfield Thomas exploration funds
DF/TR/1/1/26/553Thomas, [Michael] [Rogers] [Oldfield]
DF/ZOO/200/83Thomas, Michael Rogers Oldfield: Correspondence
DF/ZOO/200/68/51Thomas, Michael Rogers Oldfield (British Museum)
DF/ZOO/200/16/440-441Smart, [Seginer]
DF/ZOO/235/1/1/3/207Thomas, Oldfield
DF/ZOO/232/1/14Thomas, Michael Rogers Oldfield: Correspondence
DF/TR/1/1/27/559Thomas, [Michael] [Rogers] Oldfield
DF/ZOO/200/32/431Thomas, [Michael Rogers Oldfield]
DF/ZOO/232/5/12/12/5Oldfield Thomas
DF/ZOO/232/6/10/5/1Ehrhardt, W.
DF/ZOO/235/1/1/2/54Dugès, A
DF/ZOO/200/42/386-387Thomas, [Michael Rogers] Oldfield
DF/ZOO/200/44/497-498Thomas, [Michael Rogers Oldfield]
DF/ZOO/200/45/458-460Thomas, [Michael Rogers] Oldfield
DF/ZOO/200/46/475-476Thomas, [Michael Rogers] Oldfield
DF/ZOO/200/47/440-450Thomas, [Michael Rogers] Oldfield
DF/ZOO/232/6/9/8/11Hollis, E.
DF/ZOO/232/6/11/1/6Anthony, H.E.
DF/ZOO/232/6/11/19/2Simms, S.C
DF/PH/2/1/4/4Staff Group Photograph: 'The Establishment' (Full Staff Photograph)
DF/PH/2/6/7/2Staff Group Photograph: Zoology Department
DF/PH/2/1/1/23Staff Photograph: Michael Oldfield Thomas
DF/BOT/423/3/1South Eastern Union of Scientific Societies etc. photograph album
DF/TM/1/67/12Correspondence T: Thomas; Thomson
DF/TM/1/16/18Correspondence T: Thomas
WP/1/1/161Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his son William Wallace, from Parkstone, Dorset
DF/ZOO/232Mammals Section Correspondence
DF/PH/2/1/3/10Staff Photographs by Benjamin Stone: Michael Oldfield Thomas, zoologist, standing in back colonnade
DF/PH/2/1/3/21Staff Photographs by Benjamin Stone: Group of ten senior staff standing in back colonnade
DF/PH/2/6/5/1Staff Group Photograph: Zoology Department
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