Ormonde Maddock Dalton
| Ormonde Maddock Dalton MA, FSA | |||||||||
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| Born | 1866 | ||||||||
| Died | 1945 | ||||||||
| Residence |
British Museum, Bloomsbury, WC 12 Sydney Place, Bath [1929] Uplands, Bathwick Hill, Bath [1933] | ||||||||
| Occupation | museum work | ||||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
AI Council 1896 Hon. Secretary
AI Council 1897 Hon. Secretary
AI Council 1898 Member
AI Council 1899 Member
AI Council 1900 Member
AI Council 1902 Member
AI Council 1903 Member
AI Council 1904 Member
AI Council 1906 Member
RAI Council 1907 Member
RAI Council 1908 Member
RAI Council 1910 Member
RAI Council 1911 Member
RAI Council 1912-13 Member
RAI Council 1916 Member
RAI Council 1917 Member
RAI Council 1918 Member
House Notes
Corresponding Member Anthropological Society of Paris
1895.11.12 proposed by C.H. Read
Notes From Elsewhere
Byzantinist curator. Joined the department of British and Medieval Antiquities in 1895, Assistant Keeper 1909, Keeper of British and Medieval Antiquities 1921 where he succeeded C. Hercules Read (q.v.); retired 1928; Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute 1895, member of Council 1898, Hon. Secretary and Hon. Editor of the Institute's Journal 1896-7; Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (q.v.), 1899; Fellow, British Academy, 1922.
Born Cardiff; died Holford, Somerset. Entered British Museum in 1895, working under A.W. Franks. Initial interest in ethnology but changed to archaeology. Keeper of British and Medieval Antiquities 1921-8. Numerous publications.
Publications
External Publications
Author of the following reports and catalogues: 'Report on Ethnographic Museums in Germany' (HMSO 1898, where he commended the role of German government agents in the development of their national collection); 'Antiquities from the City of Benin and From Other Parts of West Africa in the British Museum' (jointly with Charles Hercules Read (q.v.), 1899); 'Catalogue of Early Christian Antiquities and Objects from the Christian East' (1901); 'Guide to Early Christian and Byzantine Antiquities' (1903); 'Catalogue to the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era' (1909); 'Handbook to the Ethnographical Collections' (1910); 'Catalogue of Finger Rings' (1912); 'Catalogue of Engraved Gems of Post-Classical Periods' (1915); 'Guide to Medieval Antiquities and Objects of Later Date' (1924); 'The treasure of the Oxus with other examples of early oriental metal-work'. Also author of a number of other books, including 'East Christian art: a survey of the monuments' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925).
