Percy powell cotton biography
Major Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton, FZS, FRGS, FRAI, JP (20 September – 26 June ) was an English explorer and hunter..
Powell-Cotton rose to the rank of Major in the 5th Battalion the Northumberland Fusiliers, and travelled widely in Asia and Africa between and
Powell-Cotton Museum
Museum in Birchington, Kent, England
The Powell-Cotton Museum is situated in Quex Park, Birchington, Kent[1] and houses the diverse personal collections of hunter and explorer Percy Powell-Cotton.
The museum also contains the collections of Powell-Cotton's two daughters, Antoinette and Diana Powell-Cotton, who shared their father's passion for collecting.
The museum, which links to the ground floor of Quex House, now comprises nine galleries dedicated not only to the extensive collection of large mammals, but to many artefacts representing the cultures and traditions of the locations Powell-Cotton visited.[2][3]
Early stages
Commencing as a single-room collection in 1896, Percy Powell-Cotton gave the go-ahead to have a pavilion erected in the gardens of Quex House, overseen by his brother, Gerald.
Percy enlisted the help of Rowland Ward, renowned in the field of taxidermy at the time, to prepare the animals for display.