Background
HARDEN, Donald Benjamin. c.B.E. M A was born on July 8, 1901 in Dublin, Ireland. Son of late Right Reverend John Mason Harden and Constance Caroline (nee Sparrow’).
HARDEN, Donald Benjamin. c.B.E. M A was born on July 8, 1901 in Dublin, Ireland. Son of late Right Reverend John Mason Harden and Constance Caroline (nee Sparrow’).
Westminster School, Trinity College, Cambridge, and University of Michigan.
Assistant Keeper, Department, of Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 1929-1945, Keeper 1945-1956. Leverhulme Research Fellowship 1953. Vice-President Society of Antiquaries, London 1949-1953, 1964-1967.
President Council for British Archaeology’ 1950-1954, Oxford Architectural and Historical Society 1952-1954, Section H, British Association 1955.
Director London Museum 1956-1970. President Museums Association 1960-1961, London and Middlesex Archaeological Society 1959-1964: Royal Archaeological Institute 1966-1969, Institute Association for History of Glass 1967-1974.
Commander, Royal Commission, on Historical Monuments (England) 1963-1971. President Society for Medieval Archaeology 1975-1977.
Honorary Fellow of the British Academy 1987.
Ancient Monuments Board for England 1959-1974. Governing body British School of Archaeology in Iraq 1949-1984. German Archaeological Institute.
Married 1st Cecil Ursula Harriss in 1934 (died in 1963), one daughter. Married 2nd Dorothy May McDonald in 1965.