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Background

GARDNER, Percy was born on November 24, 184 in Hackney.

Education

Studied at City of London School. Christ’s College Cambridge. Doctor of Letters; Doctor of Laws.

Career

Assistant at British Museum, 1871. Fellow of Christ’s College, 1872. Disney Professor of Archaeology, Cambridge, 1880.

Editor of Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1880-1896.

President of the Hellenic Society. Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences, Gottingen, and of the Prussian Academy.

Member of the Archaeological Institutes of Germany, Austria, America, and Greece. Honourable Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge, et cetera

Professor of Classical Archaeology, Oxford University, since 1887.

Fellow British Academy.

Works

All works

Interests

  • Walking, golfing.

Connections

Spouse 1874, Agnes,daughter of John Reid.

Spouse:
Agnes