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List Of Presidents Of The Royal Numismatic Society
The following have served as presidents of the Royal Numismatic Society since its inception in 1836. * 1836–39 John Lee (astronomer), John Lee * 1839–41 Edward Hawkins (numismatist), Edward Hawkins * 1841–43 Horace Hayman Wilson, H. H. Wilson * 1843–45 Albert Denison, 1st Baron Londesborough, Lord Albert Conyngham * 1845–47 Horace Hayman Wilson, H. H. Wilson * 1847–49 William Debonaire Haggard * 1849–51 Edward Hawkins (numismatist), Edward Hawkins * 1851–55 Albert Denison, 1st Baron Londesborough, The Lord Londesborough (Formerly Lord Albert Conyngham, President 1843–45) * 1855–74 William Sandys Wright Vaux, W. S. W. Vaux * 1874–1908 Sir John Evans (archaeologist), John Evans * 1908–14 Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth * 1914–19 Sir Arthur Evans * 1919–30 Charles Oman, Sir Charles Oman * 1930–35 Percy H. Webb * 1935–36 George Macdonald (archaeologist), Sir George MacDonald * 1936–37 Percy H. Webb * 1937–42 Edward A. Sydenham * 1942–48 Harold Mattingly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Royal Numismatic Society
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Christopher Evelyn Blunt
Christopher Evelyn Blunt, (16 July 1904 – 20 November 1987) was a British merchant banker and numismatist. Life Blunt was born in London, the second son of the Reverend Arthur Stanley Vaughan Blunt and of Hilda Violet Blunt, ''née'' Master. His brothers were the writer Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt and the art historian and spy Anthony Frederick Blunt. Blunt was educated at Marlborough College but, unlike his brothers, did not attend university. In 1924 he joined the banking house Higginson & Co. (later part of Hill Samuel), becoming partner in 1947. During World War II, Blunt was successively attached to the General Headquarters of the British Expeditionary Force and Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force. He was mentioned in dispatches in 1940, appointed OBE and Officer of the Legion of Merit in 1945. He retired in 1946 with the rank of colonel. Blunt was a leading numismatist. He was director of the British Numismatic Society from 1935 and its president from 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Bland
Roger Farrant Bland, (born 3 April 1955) is a British curator and numismatist. At the British Museum, he served as Keeper of the Department of Portable Antiquities and Treasure from 2005 to 2013, Keeper of the Department of Prehistory and Europe from 2012 to 2013, and Keeper of the Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory from 2013 to 2015. Since 2015, he has been a visiting professor at the University of Leicester and a Senior Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.'BLAND, Dr Roger Farrant', ''Who's Who 2017'', A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 201accessed 18 July 2017/ref> Career In 1979, Bland joined the British Museum as a curator in the Department of Coins and Medals. From 1994 to 2003, he was seconded to the Department of National Heritage (DNH) and then the Department for Culture, Media and Sport as British Museum advisor. He was deputy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Burnett
Andrew Michael Burnett, (born 23 May 1952) is a British numismatist and museum curator, who specialises in Roman coins. He was Deputy Director of the British Museum from 2003 to 2013, and Keeper of its Department of Coins and Medals from 1992 to 2003. He was president of the Royal Numismatic Society from 2013 to 2018. Early life and education Burnett was born on 23 May 1952 to Margaret and Sir John Harrison Burnett. He was educated at Fettes College, a private school in Edinburgh, Scotland. He studied '' Literae Humaniores'' (ancient history and philosophy) at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. He continued his studies at the Institute of Archaeology, graduating from the University of London with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree. Career In 1974, Burnett joined the British Museum as a research assistant in the Department of Coins and Medals. He was made assistant keeper in 1979, promoted to deputy keeper in 1990, before finally serving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Mayhew
Nicholas Julian Mayhew (Nick Mayhew) is Emeritus Professor of Numismatics and Monetary History, at the Ashmolean Museum, specialising in British and European medieval monetary history and numismatics. He was formerly Deputy Director (Collections) at the Ashmolean Museum. Awards and honours * 1995 - Jeton de Vermeil - awarded by the Société française de numismatique * 2002 - Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society The Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society was first awarded in 1883. It is awarded by the Royal Numismatic Society and is one of the highest markers of recognition given to numismatists. The President and Council award the Medal annually to an "indi ... * 2015 - ''Money, Prices and Wages: Essays in Honour of Professor Nicholas Mayhew'', ed. by Martin Allen and D’Maris Coffman (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). Publications * 1988 - ''Coinage in France from the Dark Ages to Napoleon'' (Seaby) * 1997 - ''The gros tournois : proceedings of the Fourteenth Oxford Symposium o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Cribb
Joe Cribb is a numismatist, specialising in Asian coinages, and in particular on coins of the Kushan Empire. His catalogues of Chinese silver currency ingots, and of ritual coins of Southeast Asia were the first detailed works on these subjects in English. With David Jongeward he published a catalogue of Kushan, Kushano-Sasanian and Kidarite Hun coins in the American Numismatic Society New York in 2015. In 2021 he was appointed Adjunct Professor of Numismatics at Hebei Normal University, China. Career Joe Cribb studied Latin, Greek and Ancient History at Queen Mary College, University of London, graduating in 1970. He became a research assistant at the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum. He eventually rose to be the Keeper of the Coins and Medals (2003–2010), before his retirement in 2010. His work was focused at first on the Chinese coin collection, but later expanded to other aspects of Asian coinage. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold B
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Michael Metcalf
David Michael Metcalf (8 May 1933 – 25 October 2018) was a British academic and numismatist. He was the director of the Heberden Coin Room of the Ashmolean Museum, a fellow of Wolfson College and Professor of Numismatics at the University of Oxford. He held the degrees of MA, DPhil and DLitt from Oxford. He died in October 2018 at the age of 85. Academic career Metcalf's primary focus was on the early and high Middle Ages, Byzantine Empire, the Crusader states and the Balkans. He worked at the Heberden Coin Room of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford from 1971 to 1999 and was the director of the Heberden Coin Room from 1982 to 1999. He was appointed as Professor of Numismatics at the University of Oxford in 1996 and retired in 1998; he was also a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, from 1982 to 1998. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodore V
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John Kent (numismatist)
John Philip Cozens Kent, (28 September 1928 – 22 October 2000) was a British numismatist and archaeologist. He was born the son of a railway official in Hertfordshire and educated at Minchenden Grammar School and University College, London, where he was awarded a BA in 1949 and a PhD in 1951. After two years National Service he was appointed Assistant Keeper in the British Museum’s Department of Coins and Medals. There his main interest was the coins of the late Roman period, contributing to the reference book on ''Late Roman Bronze Coinage'' which was published in 1960. Other work covered the reclassification of imitative early medieval coins of the 5th century, assisting on the dating of the Sutton Hoo burial ship and the use of gold coinage in the late Roman Empire. However his major published works were Volume VIII and X in the ''Roman Imperial Coinage'' series. Volume VIII, published in 1981, covered the period from the death of the Emperor Constantine in AD 337 to the ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Grenville Sellwood
David Grenville John Sellwood (1925-2012) was a British aeronautical engineer and numismatist, specialising in Parthian coins. He was President of the Royal Numismatic Society. Publications A full list of Sellwood's publications can be found in ''Ancient Iranian Numismatics. In Memory of David Sellwood''. * 1971 ''An Introduction to the Coinage of Parthia'' (London). 1st edition. * 1980 ''An Introduction to the Coinage of Parthia'' (London). 2nd edition. See also * List of presidents of the Royal Numismatic Society * ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Carson (numismatist)
Robert Andrew Glendinning Carson, FBA (7 April 1918 – 24 March 2006) was a British numismatist. Life and career Robert Carson was educated at Kirkcudbright Academy, He was awarded a first in classics at Glasgow Caledonian University where one of his teachers was Professor Anne S. Robertson, curator at the Hunterian Museum and a specialist in Roman coins. He served in the Royal Artillery in north-west Europe, rising to captain. He married in 1949 and had two children. In 1947, he joined the British Museum's department of coins and medals as an assistant keeper. This continued his engagement with classics, and he learned Roman numismatics under the guidance of Harold Mattingly. In 1965 he was appointed deputy keeper. He became a leading expert on Roman coins, and rose to Keeper of Coins and Medals at the British Museum from 1978 to 1983. He entered the museum's Roman coins on to its first computer database, a record which provided the basis for the Roman coin entries on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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