William Sandys Wright Vaux
| William Sandys Wright Vaux MA, FSA, FRSL | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 1818 | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 1885 | ||||||||||||||
| Residence |
British Museum. WC 4 St Martin's Place, WC [1872] | ||||||||||||||
| Occupation |
academic museum work | ||||||||||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
ASL Council 1863 [1st and new July] Member [1st list] [2nd list]
ASL Council 1864 Member
ASL Council 1865 Member
ASL Council 1866 Member
ASL Council 1867 Member
ASL Council 1869 member
House Notes
ESL 6 mar 1861 - Three models of ‘flint implements’ were presented by Mr Vaux
F & Hon. Sec. RSL, Pres. Numismatic Society of London
1871.02.14 Mr W.S.W. Vaux MA FRS was unanimously elected an Honorary Member of the Institute.
1885.10.27 death noted
Notes From Elsewhere
William Sandys Wright Vaux FRS (28 February 1818 – 21 June 1885), was a celebrated British antiquary of the 19th century.
From November 1875 to his death he was the secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society, and for many years secretary to the Royal Society of Literature
Member of the Athenaeum Club from 1870
Publications
External Publications
Nineveh and Persepolis: an Historical Sketch of Ancient Assyria and Persia, with an Account of the recent Researches in those Countries (1850; 4th ed. 1855)
Handbook to the Antiquities in the British Museum: a Description of the Remains of Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian, and Etruscan Art, 1851.
Ancient History from the Monuments; Persia from the earliest Period to the Arab Conquest, 1875: new edition by Prof. A. H. Sayce, 1893.
Ancient History from the Monuments: Greek Cities and Islands of Asia Minor, 1877.
In 1854 he edited for the Hakluyt Society The World encompassed by Sir F. Drake.
House Publications
on the Indian tribes NW of the Boundary Line as seen by Capt. Palliser’s Expedition – by James Hector MD and W.S.W. Vaux MA Read 16 apr 1861
