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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = Charles Hercules
| name = Read
| honorific_prefix =
| honorific_suffix = FSA
| image = File:Read,_Charles_Hercules.jpg
| birth_date = 1857
| death_date = 1929
| address = 103 Victoria Street, Westminster<br />22 Carlyle Square, Chelsea [1899]<br />British Museum, Bloomsbury, WC [1911]
| occupation = museum work<br />archaeologist<br />academic
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1875.02.23
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ordinary fellow
| left =
| clubs = Athenaeum Club<br />Garrick Club<br />Royal Societies Club
| societies = Society of Antiquaries<br />Anthropological Society of Paris<br />Sussex Archaeological Society
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
AI Council 1885 Member<br />AI Council 1886 Member<br />AI Council 1887 Member<br />AI Council 1888 Member<br />AI Council 1889 Member<br />AI Council 1890 Member<br />AI Council 1891 Member<br />AI Council 1892 - Vice President<br />AI Council 1893 - Vice President<br />AI Council 1894 - Vice President<br />AI Council 1895 - Member<br />AI Council 1896 - Member<br />AI Council 1897 - Member<br />AI Council 1898 - Member<br />AI Council 1899 - President<br />AI Council 1900 - President<br />AI Council 1912-13 Vice President (pp)<br />RAI Council 1917 - President<br />RAI Council 1918 - President
=== House Notes ===
proposed 1875.02.09<br />Keeper of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, British Museum, Foreign Associate of the Anthropological Society of Paris
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Sir Charles Hercules Read (1857–1929) was a British archaeologist and curator who became Keeper of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography at the British Museum, and President of the London Society of Antiquaries, following his mentor Augustus Wollaston Franks in the first position in 1896, and in the second from 1908–14 and again in 1919, after being Secretary since 1892. He began periods as President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland in 1899 and 1917. He was knighted in 1912 and retired from the British Museum in 1921.[1] He usually dropped the "Charles" in his name, especially after he was knighted, though not consistently. "A man of handsome and even striking appearance",[2] he was a major figure in British museum curation in his day, though he published relatively little<br />Born Gillingham, Kent; died Rapallo, Italy. Started working at South Kensington Museum at 16 and then under Franks at BM. Became Keeper of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography in 1896 in succession to Franks. Knighted 1912. Honorary degree from St Andrews<br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
Read, Charles Hercules, & Dalton, Ormonde Maddock (1899). Antiquities from the city of Benin and from other parts of West Africa in the British Museum. London: British Museum. The Waddesdon Bequest: Catalogue of the Works of Art bequeathed to the British Museum by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild, M.P., 1898, 1902, British Museum, Fully available on the Internet archive The catalogue numbers here are still used, and may be searched for on the BM website as "WB.1" etc. The Royal Gold Cup of the Kings of France and England, now preserved in the British Museum. Vetusta Monumenta Volume 7, part 3, 1904, the first publication of the Royal Gold Cup<br />
=== House Publications ===
On antiquities from Huasco (Guasco) Chili JAI xix 57-62<br />Exhibition of ethnological objects from the Akkas, Northern Assam JAI xv 139, 140<br />Naga ormanments JAI xix 441<br />Description of objects from Timor-laut JAI xiii, 23<br />Stone spinning tops from Torres Straits JAI xvii 85-90
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===
PRM field collector
| first_name = Charles Hercules
| name = Read
| honorific_prefix =
| honorific_suffix = FSA
| image = File:Read,_Charles_Hercules.jpg
| birth_date = 1857
| death_date = 1929
| address = 103 Victoria Street, Westminster<br />22 Carlyle Square, Chelsea [1899]<br />British Museum, Bloomsbury, WC [1911]
| occupation = museum work<br />archaeologist<br />academic
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1875.02.23
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ordinary fellow
| left =
| clubs = Athenaeum Club<br />Garrick Club<br />Royal Societies Club
| societies = Society of Antiquaries<br />Anthropological Society of Paris<br />Sussex Archaeological Society
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
AI Council 1885 Member<br />AI Council 1886 Member<br />AI Council 1887 Member<br />AI Council 1888 Member<br />AI Council 1889 Member<br />AI Council 1890 Member<br />AI Council 1891 Member<br />AI Council 1892 - Vice President<br />AI Council 1893 - Vice President<br />AI Council 1894 - Vice President<br />AI Council 1895 - Member<br />AI Council 1896 - Member<br />AI Council 1897 - Member<br />AI Council 1898 - Member<br />AI Council 1899 - President<br />AI Council 1900 - President<br />AI Council 1912-13 Vice President (pp)<br />RAI Council 1917 - President<br />RAI Council 1918 - President
=== House Notes ===
proposed 1875.02.09<br />Keeper of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, British Museum, Foreign Associate of the Anthropological Society of Paris
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Sir Charles Hercules Read (1857–1929) was a British archaeologist and curator who became Keeper of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography at the British Museum, and President of the London Society of Antiquaries, following his mentor Augustus Wollaston Franks in the first position in 1896, and in the second from 1908–14 and again in 1919, after being Secretary since 1892. He began periods as President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland in 1899 and 1917. He was knighted in 1912 and retired from the British Museum in 1921.[1] He usually dropped the "Charles" in his name, especially after he was knighted, though not consistently. "A man of handsome and even striking appearance",[2] he was a major figure in British museum curation in his day, though he published relatively little<br />Born Gillingham, Kent; died Rapallo, Italy. Started working at South Kensington Museum at 16 and then under Franks at BM. Became Keeper of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography in 1896 in succession to Franks. Knighted 1912. Honorary degree from St Andrews<br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
Read, Charles Hercules, & Dalton, Ormonde Maddock (1899). Antiquities from the city of Benin and from other parts of West Africa in the British Museum. London: British Museum. The Waddesdon Bequest: Catalogue of the Works of Art bequeathed to the British Museum by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild, M.P., 1898, 1902, British Museum, Fully available on the Internet archive The catalogue numbers here are still used, and may be searched for on the BM website as "WB.1" etc. The Royal Gold Cup of the Kings of France and England, now preserved in the British Museum. Vetusta Monumenta Volume 7, part 3, 1904, the first publication of the Royal Gold Cup<br />
=== House Publications ===
On antiquities from Huasco (Guasco) Chili JAI xix 57-62<br />Exhibition of ethnological objects from the Akkas, Northern Assam JAI xv 139, 140<br />Naga ormanments JAI xix 441<br />Description of objects from Timor-laut JAI xiii, 23<br />Stone spinning tops from Torres Straits JAI xvii 85-90
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===
PRM field collector