Essex Society for Archaeology and History

• Name — Essex Society for Archaeology and History • Hq Location City — Essex • Hq Location Country — U.K.

The Essex Archaeological Society was founded ‘’for the purposes of reading papers, exhibiting antiquities, discussions, etc.’’, on 14 December 1852. The meeting took place at Colchester Town Hall and was attended by local dignitaries such as John Gurdon Rebow (later M.P. for Colchester) and Archdeacon Charles Burney. In 1860 the Society established a museum, which is still open to the public, at Colchester Castle to display collections of artefacts donated by its members. The Society publishes its findings in the Transactions of the Essex Society for Archaeology and History, as well as in occasional papers, an annual journal and regular newsletters. It also organises excursions, lectures and other events for members.

• Rev. Charles Parr Burney, clergyman • Rev. Edward Lewes Cutts, clergyman and writer • Rev. Francis William Galpin, clergyman and musicologist • Frank Aldous Girling, farmer and photographer • John Gurdon Rebow, politician • Charles Gray Round, politician and magistrate • J. Horace Round, historian and genealogist • Rev. Frederick Spurrell, clergyman and archaeologist