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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = Augustus Wollaston
| name = Franks
| honorific_prefix =
| honorific_suffix = MA, FRS, Dir.SA, FRGS, FGS
| image = File:Franks,_Augustus__Wollaston.jpg
| birth_date = 1826
| death_date = 1897
| address = The British Museum and 55 Upper Seymour street Portman Square [1868]<br />The British Museum and103 Victoria St West SW [1869]
| occupation = academic<br />museum work
| elected_ESL = 1863.12.08
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1863
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ESL, AI Ordinary Fellow - life compounder
| left =
| clubs = Athenaeum Club
| societies = Society of Antiquaries<br />Royal Society<br />Royal Geographical Society<br />Geological Society<br />Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
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
=== 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
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
· Book of Ornamental Glazing Quarries,’ London, 1849. <br />· ‘Examples of Ornamental Art in Glass and Enamel,’ 1858. <br />· ‘Himyaritic Inscriptions from Southern Arabia,’ 1863. <br />· ‘Catalogue of Oriental Porcelain and Pottery,’ 1876 and 1878. <br />· ‘Japanese Pottery,’ 1880. <br />· ‘Catalogue of a Collection of Continental Porcelain,’ 1896.<br />He also edited John Mitchell Kemble's Horæ Ferales (1863); and Edward Hawkins's Medallic Illustrations of British History, 1885.[2] In writing about British Celtic art he introduced the term "Late Celtic period", but its application proved contentious,[2] and was considered somewhat misleading in the European picture of Celtic art.[11<br />
=== House Publications ===
Photographs of skulls and objects from the Caucasus JAI iii 176, 177<br />Stone implements from Honduras exhibited by Capt. Melford Campbell JAI vi 37-40<br />On a tattooed man from Burmah JAI ii 228-233<br />
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
roy ellen
=== Other Material ===
Franks purchased over 20,000 important objects for the British Museum's collections<br />
| first_name = Augustus Wollaston
| name = Franks
| honorific_prefix =
| honorific_suffix = MA, FRS, Dir.SA, FRGS, FGS
| image = File:Franks,_Augustus__Wollaston.jpg
| birth_date = 1826
| death_date = 1897
| address = The British Museum and 55 Upper Seymour street Portman Square [1868]<br />The British Museum and103 Victoria St West SW [1869]
| occupation = academic<br />museum work
| elected_ESL = 1863.12.08
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1863
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ESL, AI Ordinary Fellow - life compounder
| left =
| clubs = Athenaeum Club
| societies = Society of Antiquaries<br />Royal Society<br />Royal Geographical Society<br />Geological Society<br />Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
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
=== 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
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
· Book of Ornamental Glazing Quarries,’ London, 1849. <br />· ‘Examples of Ornamental Art in Glass and Enamel,’ 1858. <br />· ‘Himyaritic Inscriptions from Southern Arabia,’ 1863. <br />· ‘Catalogue of Oriental Porcelain and Pottery,’ 1876 and 1878. <br />· ‘Japanese Pottery,’ 1880. <br />· ‘Catalogue of a Collection of Continental Porcelain,’ 1896.<br />He also edited John Mitchell Kemble's Horæ Ferales (1863); and Edward Hawkins's Medallic Illustrations of British History, 1885.[2] In writing about British Celtic art he introduced the term "Late Celtic period", but its application proved contentious,[2] and was considered somewhat misleading in the European picture of Celtic art.[11<br />
=== House Publications ===
Photographs of skulls and objects from the Caucasus JAI iii 176, 177<br />Stone implements from Honduras exhibited by Capt. Melford Campbell JAI vi 37-40<br />On a tattooed man from Burmah JAI ii 228-233<br />
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
roy ellen
=== Other Material ===
Franks purchased over 20,000 important objects for the British Museum's collections<br />