Bishops House Furniture Sale 23Rd March 1922

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I have from Sheffield Museums a page copied from an Ad for a sale of goods belonging to the late Dr. Morton of Sheffield sold on Thursday 23rd March 1922 a collection of furniture and oak pannelling belonging to Old Norton House and also carved overmantle belonging to Bishops House and court cupboards, cabinets, tables, chairs, bedsteads and other interesting pieces. The sale was by Eadon and Lockwood F.A.L Auctioneers at St James Street Sheffield.

So does anyone know who Dr. Morton was?

If there is an archive collection of sales catalogues for Eadon and Lockwood?

Possible records for who bought what?

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Dr Thomas Henry Morton(MD., 1876), of 29 Glen Road, Nether Edge, Sheffield, died on 26 August, aged eighty-one; he was the oldest member of the Sheffield Division of the British Medical Association. He was born in Burmah, where his father was a British Commissioner. He received his early education at Newark, and was then apprenticed to Dr. Slater of Bawtry. Later he passed to the Old Sheffield Medical School and obtained the diplomas of M.R.C.S in 1861 and the L.S.A. in 1862. For a time he acted as demonstrator of Anatomy at his old school, and then entered general practice by acting as assistant to a doctor in Gainsborough. In 1864 he settled in Brightside, Sheffield, and conducted a large practice in this area for nearly thirty-four years, retiring in 1898. He took the M.D. degree at Aberdeen in 1876. He was President of the Sheffield Medico-Chirurgical Society in 1880, and contributed occasionally to medical literature.

The British Medical Journal, in an obituary notice, said-

Dr. Morton had many hobbies. He was a connoisseur and collector of an old oak. His collection was justly admired, and was considered one of the finest in Yorkshire. An ardent disciple of Isaak Walton, he enjoyed nothing better than a day with the rod, incidentally picking up any piece of old oak which caught his fancy. He was an accomplished photographer, and was particularly successful with interiors of cathedrals and churches. During the great epidemic of small-pox in Sheffield in 1888, Morton made a fine collection of lantern slides depicting the various phases of the disease. He was the only Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in Sheffield, and he was very proud of the fact. He was a Churchman, and for many years took an active part in the work of St. Mary’s Church. He was beloved by his patients, and his benevolence to his poorer patients was a marked trait in his character.

This looks like the Man but anyone know anything more?

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Royal Photographic Society

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Yes I found this. Mainly scientific photos though one of hay field in Beauchief. I wonder if he had a photographic collection and whether anyone kept it after his death as he has no descendants. He had a wife Ellen Eliza bur she died a few months after him.