See also:SIR See also:CHARLES See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS See also:NEWTON (1816-1894)
, See also:British archaeologist, was See also:born on the 16th of See also:September 1816; at Bredwardine in See also:Herefordshire, and educated at See also:Shrewsbury School and See also:Christ See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford
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He entered the British Museum in 184o as an assistant in the Antiquities See also:Department
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Antiquities, classical, See also:Oriental and See also:medieval, as well as ethnographical See also:objects, were at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time included in one department, which. had no classical archaeologist among its See also:officers
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In 1852 See also:Newton quitted the Museum to become See also:vice-See also:consul at Mitylene, with the See also:object of exploring the coasts and islands of See also:Asia See also:Minor
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Aided by funds supplied by See also:Lord See also:Stratford de Redcliffe, then British See also:ambassador at See also:Constantinople, he made in 1852 and 1855 important discoveries of See also:inscriptions at the See also:island of Calymnos, off the See also:coast of See also:Caria; and in 1856–1857 achieved the See also:great archaeological exploit of his See also:life by the See also:discovery of the remains of the See also:mausoleum of See also:Halicarnassus, one of the " seven wonders " of the See also:ancient See also:world
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He was greatly assisted by Murdoch See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith, afterwards celebrated in connexion with See also:Persian telegraphs
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The results were described by Newton in his See also:History of Discoveries at Halicarnassus (1862-1863), written in See also:conjunction with R
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Pullan, and in his Travels and Discoveries in the See also:Levant (1865)
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These See also:works included particulars of other important discoveries, especially at
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Branchidae, where he disinterred the statues which had anciently lined the Sacred Way, and at Cnidos, where R
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Pullan, acting under his direction, found the See also:colossal See also:lion now in the British Museum
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In 1855 Newton declined the regius professorship of See also:Greek at Oxford
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In x86o he was made British consul at See also:Rome, but had scarcely entered upon the See also:post when an opportunity presented itself of reorganizing the amorphous department of antiquities at the British Museum, which was divided into three and ultimately four branches
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The Greek and See also:Roman See also:section naturally See also:fell to Newton, who returned as Keeper, and held the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office until 1885, declining the offer of the See also:principal librarianship made to him in 1878
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The Mausoleum See also:Room, to accommodate the treasures he had found in Asia Minor, was built under his super-See also:vision, but the most brilliant See also:episode of his See also:administration was the acquisition of the Blacas and Castellani gems and sculptures
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The See also:Farnese and Pourtales,collections were also acquired by him
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He took a leading See also:part in the See also:foundation of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, the British School at See also:Athens, and the See also:Egypt Exploration Fund
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He was See also:Yates See also:professor, of classical See also:archaeology at University See also:College, See also:London, from 188o to 1888
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His collected Essays on See also:Art and Archaeology were published in 1886
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When, on his retirement from the Museum, his bust by See also:Boehm, now placed in one of the See also:sculpture galleries, was presented to him as a testimonial, he desired the unexpended See also:balance to be given to the school at Athens
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After his retirement he was much occupied with the publication of the Greek inscriptions in the British Museum, but his See also:health failed greatly in the latter years of his life
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He died at See also:Margate on the 28th of See also:November 1894
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He married in 1861 the daughter of his successor in the 'consulate at Rome, the painter See also:Severn, herself a distinguished artist
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She died in 1866
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