from the university. Fortnum left a substantial sum to the University of Oxford for the Ashmolean Museum, and a smaller amount to the British Museum. Works For the Council on Education Fortnum wrote the Descriptive Catalogue of the Maiolica, Hispano-Moresco, Persian, Damascus, and Rhodian Wares in the South Kensington Museum (1873), and the Descriptive Catalogue of Bronzes of European Origin (1876) in the South Kensington Museum, published in 1876. He also published: Maiolica. A historical Treatise on the glazed and enamelled Earthenwares of Italy, with Marks and Monograms; also some notice of the Persian, Damascus, Rhodian, and Hispano-Moresque Wares, Oxford, 1896. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Maiolica and Enamelled Earthenware of Italy, the Persian, Damascus, Rhodian, Hispano-Moresque, and some French and other Wares in the Ashmolean Museum, Fortnum Collection, Oxford, 1897. He contributed to Archæologia on early Christian gems and rings, and on the royal collection of gems, including the diamond signet of Queen Henrietta Maria, which he presented to Queen Victoria in 1887. Family Fortnum was twice married: first, on 7 March 1848, to Fanny Matilda (d. 1890), daughter of Thomas Keats; secondly, on 27 October 1891, to his cousin Mary, only child and heiress of Charles Fortnum (d. 1845), captain in the 1st Royals. His widow, Mary, survived him about a month, dying on 9 April 1899. Notes Attribution 1820 births 1899 deaths Burials at Highgate Cemetery English art collectors English art historians Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London People associated with the Ashmolean Museum Members of Middlesex County Council