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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 111 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TOWNELEY (or See also:TOwNLEY), See also:CHARLES (1737-1805)  , See also:English archaeologist and See also:collector of See also:marbles, was See also:born at See also:Towneley, the See also:family seat, near See also:Burnley in See also:Lancashire, on the 1st of See also:October 1737 . He was educated at the See also:college of See also:Douai, and subsequently under See also:John See also:Turberville Needham, the physiologist and divine . In 1758 he took up his See also:residence at Towneley, where he lived the See also:ordinary See also:life of a See also:country See also:gentleman until about 1765, when he See also:left See also:England to study See also:ancient See also:art, chiefly at See also:Rome . He also made several excursions to the See also:south of See also:Italy and See also:Sicily . In See also:conjunction with Gavin See also:Hamilton, the artist, and See also:Thomas See also:Jenkins, a banker in Rome, he got together a splendid collection of antiquities, which was deposited in two houses bought by him for the purpose in See also:Park See also:Street, See also:Westminster, where he died on the 3rd of See also:January 1805 . His solitary publication was an See also:account of an ancient See also:helmet found at Ribchester . His marbles, bronzes, coins, and gems were See also:purchased by the See also:British Museum for about £28,000, and See also:form See also:part of the Graeco-See also:Roman collection . For an account of the antiquities see See also:Sir See also:Henry See also:Ellis's The See also:Townley See also:Gallery (1836), and A . T . F . See also:Michaelis's Ancient Marbles in See also:Great See also:Britain (1882) .

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