PERCY

See also:

• GARDNER
• PERCY GARDNER (1846– )

GARDNER (1846– )  , English classical archaeologist, was born in London, and was educated at the City of London school and Christ's College, Cambridge (fellow, 1872) . He was Disney professor of archaeology at Cambridge from r88o to 1887, and was then appointed professor of classical archaeology at Oxford, where he had a stimulating influence on the study of ancient, and particularly Greek, art . He also became prominent as an historical critic on Biblical subjects . Among his works are: Types of Greek Coins (1883): A Numismatic Commentary on Pausanias (with F . Imhoof-Blumer, 1887); New Chapters in Greek History (1892), an account of excavations in Greece and Aisa Minor; Manual of Greek Antiquities (with F . B . Jevons, 2nd ed . 1898); Grammar of Greek Art (1905); Exploratio Evangelica (1899), on the origin of Christian belief; A Historic View of_the New Testament (1901); Growth of Christianity (1907) . His brother, ERNEST ARTHUR GARDNER (1862- ), educated at the City of London school and Caius College, Cambridge (fellow, 1885), is also well known as an archaeologist . From 1887 to 1895 he was director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens, and later became professor of archaeology at University College, London . His publications include: Introduction to Greek Epigraphy (1887); Ancient Athens (1902); Handbook of Greek Sculpture (1905); Six Greek Sculptors (1910) . He was elected first Public Orator of London University in 1910 .