Charles Hercules Read
| Charles Hercules Read FSA Hon LLD FBA | |||||||||||
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| Born | 1857 | ||||||||||
| Died | 1929 | ||||||||||
| Residence |
103 Victoria Street, Westminster [1875] 135 Church Street, Chelsea, SW [1885] 17 Carlyle Square, Chelsea, SW [1894] 22 Carlyle Square, Chelsea [1897] British Museum, Bloomsbury, WC [1911] 6 Palace Gardens Terrace, Kensington, W8 [1921] | ||||||||||
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museum work archaeologist academic | ||||||||||
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Office Notes
AI Council 1885 Member
AI Council 1886 Member
AI Council 1887 Member
AI Council 1888 Member
AI Council 1889 Member
AI Council 1890 Member
AI Council 1891 Member
AI Council 1892 - Vice President
AI Council 1893 - Vice President
AI Council 1894 - Vice President
AI Council 1895 - Member
AI Council 1896 - Member
AI Council 1897 - Member
AI Council 1898 - Member
AI Council 1899 - President
AI Council 1900 - President
AI Council 1912-13 Vice President (pp)
RAI Council 1917 - President
RAI Council 1918 - President
House Notes
proposed 1875.02.09
Keeper of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, British Museum, Foreign Associate of the Anthropological Society of Paris
death noted in the Report of the Council for 1929
Obituary in Man 1929, 48
Notes From Elsewhere
Sir Charles Hercules Read (1857–1929) was a British archaeologist and curator who became Keeper of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography at the British Museum, and President of the London Society of Antiquaries, following his mentor Augustus Wollaston Franks in the first position in 1896, and in the second from 1908–14 and again in 1919, after being Secretary since 1892. He began periods as President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland in 1899 and 1917. He was knighted in 1912 and retired from the British Museum in 1921.[1] He usually dropped the "Charles" in his name, especially after he was knighted, though not consistently. "A man of handsome and even striking appearance",[2] he was a major figure in British museum curation in his day, though he published relatively little
Born Gillingham, Kent; died Rapallo, Italy. Started working at South Kensington Museum at 16 and then under Franks at BM. Became Keeper of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography in 1896 in succession to Franks. Knighted 1912. Honorary degree from St Andrews
Publications
External Publications
Read, Charles Hercules, & Dalton, Ormonde Maddock (1899). Antiquities from the city of Benin and from other parts of West Africa in the British Museum. London: British Museum. The Waddesdon Bequest: Catalogue of the Works of Art bequeathed to the British Museum by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild, M.P., 1898, 1902, British Museum, Fully available on the Internet archive The catalogue numbers here are still used, and may be searched for on the BM website as "WB.1" etc. The Royal Gold Cup of the Kings of France and England, now preserved in the British Museum. Vetusta Monumenta Volume 7, part 3, 1904, the first publication of the Royal Gold Cup
House Publications
On antiquities from Huasco (Guasco) Chili JAI xix 57-62
Exhibition of ethnological objects from the Akkas, Northern Assam JAI xv 139, 140
Naga ormanments JAI xix 441
Description of objects from Timor-laut JAI xiii, 23
Stone spinning tops from Torres Straits JAI xvii 85-90
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