From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10829 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Friday, March 3 2023 Volume 14 : Number 10829 Today's Subjects: ----------------- BONUS: $100 Amazon Gift Card Opportunity ["Amazon Shopper Feedback" Subject: BONUS: $100 Amazon Gift Card Opportunity BONUS: $100 Amazon Gift Card Opportunity http://santokuknivesz.shop/DVp6xOQucX5J4ZemSQqzWmx55cw_rgk3c8WTQksAlEd4pxwDDw http://santokuknivesz.shop/1qUTSdNUZ4LI38K9tZXGj-GVO5N01iwB-YLw620E25L6FJLc2w of his wife after giving birth to their only child, who was stillborn; this was in 1866. Thereafter he lived with his unmarried sister Alice. As well as filling positions in local public life, he was Liberal MP for Aylesbury from 1885 until his death, and from 1896 a Trustee of the British Museum, probably at the instigation of Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks. Ferdinand recognized and welcomed the drift of high quality art into public collections, which had begun in earnest during his time as a collector. While most of his assets and collections were left to his sister Alice, the collection now forming the Bequest and, separately, a group of 15 manuscripts now in the British Library, were left to the British Museum. He had already donated some significant objects to the museum in his lifetime, which are not counted in the Bequest. Baron Ferdinand's bequest was most specific, and failure to observe the terms would make it void. It stated that the collection should be placed in a special room to be called the Waddesdon Bequest Room separate and apart from the other contents of the Museum and thenceforth for ever thereafter, keep the same in such room or in some other room to be substituted for it. These terms are still observed, and until late 2014 the collection was shown in the rather small room 45, in a display opened in 1973. In 2015 the Bequest was moved to Room 2A, a new, larger gallery on the ground floor, close to the main entrance on Museum Street. Until the Chinese ceramics collection of the Percival David Foundation moved to ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10829 ***********************************************