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Bernard Fagg
Bernard Evelyn Buller Fagg (8 December 1915 – 14 August 1987) was a British archaeologist and Museum curator who undertook extensive work in Nigeria before and after the Second World War.
Biography.
Fagg was born in Upper Norwood to antiquarian bookseller William Percy Fagg and his wife Lilian Fagg (née Buller). His brother was William Buller Fagg. Bernard Fagg studied classics, archaeology and anthropology at Downing College, University of Cambridge. After graduation he began to work for the British colonial administration in Jos,
British archaeologist and museum curator Bernard Evelyn Buller Fagg.
Education.
Fagg was educated at Dulwich College before entering Magdalene College, Cambridge to study Classics, winning prizes for Latin hexameters and Latin epigrams. After graduating in 1936, the next year he went on to take a second degree in Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.
Career.
Fagg had a long and distinguished career at the British Museum. In 1938, he was appointed the Assistant Keeper of Ethnography and continued in this post until 1955,