Catalogue description Papers of John and Llewellyn Treacher of Twyford, 1832, 1855-1911, and miscellaneous, 1961 and n.d.

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Reference: D/EX 564
Title: Papers of John and Llewellyn Treacher of Twyford, 1832, 1855-1911, and miscellaneous, 1961 and n.d.
Date: 1832-1961
Related material:

See John Finch, Llewellyn Treacher FGS 1859-1943 and his photographs (Twyford 1991) for a brief biography.

 

For additional papers of the Treacher family, including Llewellyn Treacher's historical notes and John Treacher's diary, see D/EX 1457. For a general introduction to the family and a pedigree, see the introduction to the catalogue of D/EX 1457.]
Held by: Royal Berkshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: (2 vols, 66 bdls, 48 docs)
Administrative / biographical background:

Llewellyn Treacher (1859-1943) served on Twyford parish council from 1895-1937, as chairman from 1899; Wokingham Rural District Council, 1894-1928; and Wokingham Board of Guardians.

 

He was an enthusiastic amateur geologist and archaeologist, with a particular interest in the palaeolithic period. He was a friend of Joseph Stevens, first curator of Reading Museum, and inspired local antiquarian F. Maitland Underhill in the 1920s.

 

His collection of geological specimens, archaeological finds and photographs has been long-since dispersed, but material is held at Reading University, the Musum of English Rural Life, and the Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford, among other places.
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