Education
He moved to work part-time for the university"s museum of archaeology and anthropology, and he completed a Doctor of Philosophy thesis on the Archaeology of the Cambridge Region, which was published in 1922.
He moved to work part-time for the university"s museum of archaeology and anthropology, and he completed a Doctor of Philosophy thesis on the Archaeology of the Cambridge Region, which was published in 1922.
Fox became keeper of archaeology at the National Museum of Wales. Sir Cyril Fred Fox rose from his first humble employment as a 16-year-old gardener to become Director of the National Museum of Wales from 1926 to 1948. On the way to this prestigious appointment he became a clerk in a government commission on tuberculosis and then director of a small research station in Cambridge.
In that year he was appointed curator of archaeology in the National Museum of Wales, and in 1926 became its Director.
He produced a remarkable range of publications. They include The Personality of Britain (1932), drawing attention to the differences between upland and lowland Britain, Offa"s Dyke (1955), a seminal study of that great earthwork, and studies on Celtic Art, on the major discovery of early ironwork at Llyn Cerrig Bach in Anglesey, and of Monmouthshire houses.
Foreign his administrative and scholarly work he gained a wide range of honours, including a knighthood (1935) and Fellowship of the British Academy (1940). Always more than a digger and chronicler, Fox"s breadth of vision means that his work is still valuable today.