The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
John Senhouse ( - 1604)
Elizabethan collector of antiquities (Hepple). In his Britannia William Camden mentions visiting him in 1599 and describes his collection of numerous Roman stones, altars, layers, and statues, with inscriptions, which he had displayed in his houses and buildings. Leslie Hepple writes, "The Senhouse collection is particularly interesting, both because of the exceptionally early start of this collection and because the family continued to value it and add to it, with local excavations through three centuries." The excavation work was continued by Stenhouse's great-grandson John Senhouse (c.1686), Henry Senhouse I (host to William Stukeley in 1725), Henry Senhouse II (1742, 1766), Henry Senhouse IV (1787-8), and Henry Pocklington-Senhouse (1870). The collection was kept at Netherhall, first in the garden and then in a portico, finally deposited in the Senhouse Museum in 1990. (See fuller account in Hepple). Other biography: http://clanbarker.com/getperson.php?personID=I1717&tree=Br Collector (minor)Relevant locations: Birth place in Ellenborough Hall, Cumberland
Birth place in Ellenborough Hall, Maryport
Housed collection or remnant at Senhouse Roman Museum, Maryport
Housed collection or remnant at Senhouse Roman Museum, Netherhall
Relationships: John Senhouse was a visited by William Camden (2 May 1551-1623)
John Senhouse (c.1686-) was a relative of John Senhouse
Linked print sources: as Collector (minor) - Catalogue of Roman Inscribed & Sculptured Stones, Coins, Earthenware, etc. Discovered in and Near the Roman Fort at Maryport, and Preserved at Netherhall.
as Collector (minor) - Introduction.
as Collector (minor) - Maryport, Cumbria: A Roman Fort and its Garrison.
as Collector (minor) - William Camden and Early Collections of Roman Antiquities in Britain.
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