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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = Ormonde Maddock
| name = Dalton
| honorific_prefix =
| honorific_suffix = MA, FSA
| image = File:Dalton,_Ormonde_Maddock.jpg
| birth_date = 1866
| death_date = 1945
| address = British Museum, Bloomsbury, WC
| occupation = museum work
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1895
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = Ordinary fellow - life compounder
| left =
| clubs = Royal Societies Club
| societies = Society of Antiquaries<br />Anthropological Society of Paris<br />British Academy
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
AI Council 1896 Hon. Secretary<br />AI Council 1897 Hon. Secretary<br />AI Council 1898 Member<br />AI Council 1899 Member<br />AI Council 1900 Member<br />AI Council 1902 Member<br />AI Council 1903 Member<br />AI Council 1904 Member<br />AI Council 1906 Member<br />RAI Council 1907 Member<br />RAI Council 1908 Member<br />RAI Council 1910 Member<br />RAI Council 1911 Member<br />RAI Council 1912-13 Member<br />RAI Council 1916 Member<br />RAI Council 1917 Member<br />RAI Council 1918 Member
=== House Notes ===
Corresponding Member Anthropological Society of Paris
=== 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. <br /><br />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.<br /><br />
== 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).
=== House Publications ===

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