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'''Augustus Wollaston Franks'''
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ESL Council 1865-66 Member [retiring]<br />ESL Council 1869-70 Member<br /><br />AI Council 1872 Member<br />AI Council 1873 Member<br />AI Council 1875 Vice President<br />AI Council 1876 Vice President<br />AI Council 1877 Vice President<br />AI Council 1878 Member<br />AI Council 1879 Member<br />AI Council 1880 Member<br />AI Council 1881 Member<br />AI Council 1882 Member<br />AI Council 1883 Member<br />AI Council 1884 Member<br />AI Council 1885 Member<br />AI Council 1886 Member<br />AI Council 1887 Member<br />AI Council 1888 Member
=== House Notes ===
Director of the Society of Antiquaries<br />death noted in report of the council for 1897<br />Brabrook's presidential address 1898: I pass on to the record of our losses by death during the year. That of Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, great as it is,- I need not now refer to at length, the brief and inadequate observations which I made on it at the time having already appeared in the Journal. I will merely place on record the facts that he joined the Ethnological Society in 1863, was elected a member of its Council in 1865, and became a Vice- President of this Institute in 1874. For a long time he regularly attended our meetings, took an active part in the proceedings, and made a great number of communications to our Journal. His primary allegiance was due, however, to the Society of Antiquaries, which he had joined on the 15th December, 1853, and in which for many years he played a most distinguished part. His first contribution to "Archaeologia" vas made on the very day he became a Fellow, under the title, Observations on an Ancient Fibula."
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks KCB (20 March 1826 – 21 May 1897) was an English antiquary and museum administrator. Franks was described by Marjorie Caygill, historian of the British Museum, as "arguably the most important collector in the history of the British Museum, and one of the greatest collectors of his age"<br /><br />Member of the Athenaeum from 1857