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'''William Gowland'''
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AI Council 1896 Member<br />AI Council 1897 Member<br />AI Council 1898 Member<br />AI Council 1899 Member<br />AI Council 1900 Vice President<br />AI Council 1901 Vice President<br />AI Council 1902 Vice President<br />AI Council 1903 Member<br />AI Council 1904 Member<br />AI Council 1905 President<br />AI Council 1906 President
=== House Notes ===
1887.06.14 proposed for election at the next meeting<br />1912 HML The metals in antiquity Delivered 19th Nov. <br /><br />In 1917 list Emeritus Professor of Metallurgy, Royal School of Mines, South Kensington<br />death reported in Report of the Council for 1922<br />portrait and obit. in Man 1922 , 78 by C.H. Read
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
William Gowland (16 December 1842 – 9 June 1922) was an English mining engineer most famous for his archaeological work at Stonehenge and in Japan. He has been called the "Father of Japanese Archaeology".[1]<br /><br />Born Sunderland. In Japan (1872-88) as part of modernization programme. Known there as ‘the father of Japanese archaeology’. Chevalier of the Order of the Rising Sun. 1900 involved in repairs of Stonehenge. Professor of Metallurgy, Royal School of Mines, Kensington<br /><br /><br />