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Hornby / Reason family: Shakespeare Museum

Description

Three items relating to the Shakespeare Museum, Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon.

  • Finding No

    DR1008/1

  • Date

    1820-c.1850

  • Extent

    3 items

  • Status

    open

  • Level

    section

  • Associated people

    Hornby, Mary

    Reason, Mary

    Reason, Joseph

    Reason, Arabella

  • Associated place

    United Kingdom - England - Warwickshire - Stratford-upon-Avon - Henley Street - Shakespeare's Birthplace,

    United Kingdom - England - Warwickshire - Stratford-upon-Avon - High Street - 23 - Shakespeare Museum,

    United Kingdom - England - Warwickshire - Stratford-upon-Avon - Bridge Street - 9,

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Related material

see: Nicholas Fogg, 'Stratford-upon-Avon:Portrait of a Town', Chichester 1986, 119-20, 132

Custodial History

Purchased by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in 1999.

Admin History

The Shakespeare Museum was established in 1820 by Mary Hornby (née Spiers) at [no. 40 or 41] Henley Street, after she had been given notice to quit Shakespeare's Birthplace, where she had been custodian. Around 1824 the household moved out of Henley Street, and over the following years occupied various premises in the town [details at DR1008]. The museum collection seems to have moved with the household.

Following Mary Hornby's death in 1829, the Museum collection was managed by her daughter, Mary Reason. When Joseph Reason moved to Guild Street Police Station, the collection of relics passed to his daughter Arabella Reason, who exhibited it at her shop at 9 Bridge Street.