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data:
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    - intro: tono
      lang: ger
      text: Sir
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      intro: acti
      lang: ger
      text: 'Personen zu Volkskunde, Völkerkunde (17.4p)'
      uri: http://d-nb.info/standards/vocab/gnd/gnd-sc#17.4p
    - authority: gnd
      intro: acti
      lang: ger
      text: Sammler
      uri: http://d-nb.info/gnd/4179037-6
  bioDates:
    - end: 1788
      lang: eng
      start: 1729
      text: 1729-1788
    - end: 1788
      lang: ger
      start: 1729
      text: 05.03.1729-24.01.1788
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      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: Clustered authority record
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      typeOfResource: same
    - code: DNBI
      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: Authority record
      searchTerm: http://d-nb.info/gnd/1019861037
      typeOfResource: same
    - code: DBPD
      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: Authority record
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      typeOfResource: same
    - code: WIKI
      searchTerm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashton_Lever
      typeOfResource: info
    - code: WDAT
      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: Wikidata description set
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      typeOfResource: same
    - code: KAPE
      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: Manuscript material
      searchTerm: 1019861037
      typeOfResource: bibl
    - code: LINK
      note:
        - lang: und
          text: 'Sir Ashton Lever prob. by William Holl Sr, after Samuel Shelley. Sir Ashton Lever (March 5, 1729 - January 28, 1788) was an English collector of natural objects.Lever began by collecting seashells in about 1760, and gradually accumulated one of the richest private collections of natural objects, including live animals. He opened it to the public in April 1766, in Manchester, moving the museum to his family home at Alkrington Hall, near Rochdale, Lancashire (ex en wiki)'
      rights: 'Attributed to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:William_Holl_the_Elder" class="extiw" title="w:en:William Holl the Elder"><span title="English engraver and radical">William Holl</span></a> / <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://images.npg.org.uk/790_500/6/5/mw39365.jpg">http://images.npg.org.uk/790_500/6/5/mw39365.jpg</a> -- Public domain -- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sir Ashton Lever (mw39365).jpg'
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  external:
    - auth: GND
      country: DE
      date: 20120217
      id: 1019861037
    - auth: ESTC
      country: GB
      id: tb028390
  foundIn:
    - GK55
    - 'DNB=Lever, Sir Ashton, 1729.3.5-1788.1.24 age 58; collector of the Leverian Museum, knighted 1778.6.5'
    - NUC
    - LCAuth
  generalNote:
    - lang: ger
      text: 'Engl. Adliger (Sir), Sammler von Ethnographica und Naturalia und Gründer eines Privatmuseums, des Holophusicon. 1806 wurde die Sammlung versteigert'
  geoNote:
    - authority: iso3166
      intro: geon
      lang: und
      text: GB
    - intro: geon
      lang: ger
      text: Großbritannien
  heading:
    - part:
        - entry: Lever
        - firstname: Ashton
      usedBy:
        - GyFmDB
    - part:
        - entry: Lever
        - firstname: Ashton
        - addition: Sir
      usedBy:
        - ESTC(AACR2)
        - ESTC(GK)
  imprintSource:
    - title: 'T051309: his To the nobility, gentry and public at large, 1780 end sg=Ashton Lever'
  name:
    - part:
        - entry: Alkrington
        - firstname: Ashton Lever
        - nonsort: of
      typeOfName: varn
    - part:
        - entry: Lever of Alkrington
        - firstname: Ashton
      typeOfName: varn
  previousId:
    - cnp00033952
  typeOfEntry: 0
meta:
  history:
    - timestamp: 2012-03-02T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2012-03-02T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2019-05-03T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2020-09-14T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2024-02-08T12:00:00Z
  status: n