Walter Keeping


Walter Keeping MA was a British geologist and museum curator.

Biography

Keeping was a master's degree graduate of Christ's College Cambridge and worked with his father, Henry Keeping, in the Sedgwick Museum. He left the Sedgwick Museum in to take up the Chair of Natural Science in the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth and was subsequently appointed Keeper of the Yorkshire Museum in August 1880.
Upon his appointment to the role of Keeper, Keeping was paid £200 a year in wages. He had tried to negotiate a larger sum, but instead accepted the residence of St. Mary's Lodge in the Museum Gardens. Shortly after moving to York he developed a form of paralysis which affected his ability to work; he retired from the museum in 1883 as a result of his 'mental infirmity'.

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