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E S Beaven Collection
Catalogue reference: D BEAV
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D BEAV
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Title (The name of the record)
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E S Beaven Collection
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Description (What the record is about)
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RECORDS OF E S BEAVEN
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Note (Additional information about the record)
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List compiled March 1998
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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<p>See also TR GUI</p>
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Museum of English Rural Life
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- <persname>Beaven, E S, 1857-1941, Wiltshire, farmer</persname>
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Accession no: DX451
Records deposited in January 1998 as a gift by John R Young & Susan E Oldham
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Edwin Sloper Beaven (1857-1941) was one of the leading breeders of barley in the first half of the twentieth century.
He was born near Heytesbury in Wiltshire and began working on his father's farm there at the age of 13. Later Beaven became a maltster in Warminster, Wiltshire, and became interested in the quality of malting barley. In 1894 he purchased 4 acres of land at Boreham just outside Warminster and began to carry out experimental trials of barley. One outcome of his experiments was a new variety, Plumage-Archer, which was one of the principal types of malting barely until new hybrids, such as Proctor, were introduced after the Second World War. Beaven was associated with the brewers Arthur Guinness, Son & Co who took over his maltings and trial grounds after his death in 1941.
Much of Beaven's work was published posthumously in the book Barley (1947).
D BEAV/A1-5 Biographical and Personal
D BEAV/B1-3 Correspondence
D BEAV/C1-40 Research Material
D BEAV/D1-11 Reference Material
D BEAV/E1-15 Published Work
D BEAV/G1 Copy of Address
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- <p>Barley : Fifty Years of Observation and Experiment (1947)</p>
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Record URL
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