Charles Hercules Read [SEP] occupation
Charles Hercules Read
Sir Charles Hercules Read, FBA (6 July 1857 – 11 February 1929) was a British archaeologist and curator who became Keeper of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography at the British Museum, and President of the London Society of Antiquaries, following his mentor Augustus Wollaston Franks in the first position in 1896, and in the second from 1908–14 and again in 1919, after being Secretary since 1892. He began periods as President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland in 1899 and 1917. He
publication of the Royal Gold Cup
References.
- "Burlington": Sir Hercules Read, The Burlington Magazine (no author given), Vol. 54, No. 312 (Mar. 1929), pp. 153–154, JSTOR
- Balfour, Henry, Obituary "Sir Charles Hercules Read, 6 July 1857 – 11 February 1929", "Man" (Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland), Vol. 29, (Apr. 1929), pp. 61–62, JSTOR
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