SMGC 1/2 PX Gypsiologist/Sampson - John Sampson - n.d.

  • Sampson.1: with a piece from the flyleaf of a book given to Sampson by H. Crofton and a translation of the Romani inscription. The photograph is very small
  • Sampson.2: Sampson in armchair by fireplace
  • Sampson.3-4: studio photograph of John Sampson, Bernard Gilliat-Smith and...

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    Physical Description:6 photographs - black and white
Summary:
  • Sampson.1: with a piece from the flyleaf of a book given to Sampson by H. Crofton and a translation of the Romani inscription. The photograph is very small
  • Sampson.2: Sampson in armchair by fireplace
  • Sampson.3-4: studio photograph of John Sampson, Bernard Gilliat-Smith and Dora Yates with Rosie and Mary Lizzie Griffiths. cf. Unid.1.12
  • Sampson.5: part of printed page from The Ladies Pictorial or Madame with photograph of Mrs. Chaloner Dowdall, Noah Young, Miss Borthwick, Harold Dowdall, John Sampson and Oscar Young. Dated 4 Aug 1900
  • Sampson.6: Michael Sampson's wedding with John Sampson second from right, and Dora Yates far left. Taken at by G. Williams, Gwalia Studio, Corwen, Clywd, Wales
Date:n.d.
Reference Number:SMGC 1/2 PX Gypsiologist/Sampson
Biographical/Administrative Information:

Dr John Sampson (1862-1931) was the first Librarian at University College (later University of) Liverpool, from 1892-1928. In 1907 John Sampson and fellow gypsiologist David MacRitchie persuaded Robert Andrew Scott Macfie to revive the Gypsy Lore Society which had been defunct for the previous 14 years. Sampson was President of the Gypsy Lore Society 1915-1916.

John Sampson was the author of The dialect of the Gypsies of Wales: being the older form of British Romani preserved in the speech of the clan of Abram Wood (Oxford University Press, 1926) and of A hundred Shelta sayings (Gypsy Lore Society, 1908).