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SIR CHARLES THOMAS NEWTON (1816-1894)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 583 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:CHARLES See also: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, See also:Oxford . He entered the British Museum in 184o as an assistant in the Antiquities See also:Department . Antiquities, classical, See also:Oriental and See also:medieval, as well as ethnographical See also:objects, were at the See also:time included in one department, which. had no classical archaeologist among its See also:officers . 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 . 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 . He was greatly assisted by Murdoch See also:Smith, afterwards celebrated in connexion with See also:Persian telegraphs . The results were described by Newton in his See also:History of Discoveries at Halicarnassus (1862-1863), written in See also:conjunction with R . P . Pullan, and in his Travels and Discoveries in the See also:Levant (1865) . These See also:works included particulars of other important discoveries, especially at . Branchidae, where he disinterred the statues which had anciently lined the Sacred Way, and at Cnidos, where R . P .

Pullan, acting under his direction, found the See also:

colossal See also:lion now in the British Museum . In 1855 Newton declined the regius professorship of See also:Greek at Oxford . 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 . 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 until 1885, declining the offer of the See also:principal librarianship made to him in 1878 . 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 . The See also:Farnese and Pourtales,collections were also acquired by him . 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 . 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 . His collected Essays on See also:Art and Archaeology were published in 1886 . 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 . 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 . He died at See also:Margate on the 28th of See also:November 1894 .

He married in 1861 the daughter of his successor in the 'consulate at Rome, the painter See also:

Severn, herself a distinguished artist . She died in 1866 . (R .

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