Ormonde Maddock Dalton,
FBA (1866–1945) was a British museum curator and archaeologist.
Though very much an all-rounder, his main expertise was in medieval art. He usually published as O. M. Dalton, but also wrote under the pseudonym W. Compton Leith.
From 1921 to 1928 he was Keeper of the British and Medieval Antiquities Department at the
British Museum
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. As well as the books below, he wrote a stream of articles and short books for the museum.
Works
*''Handbook to the Ethnographical Collections'' (1910) with
Thomas Athol Joyce.
*''Byzantine Art and Archaeology'' (1911), handbook of art and artefacts.
*''East Christian Art'' (1925).
;Translations
*
Gregory of Tours. ''The History of the Franks''. 2 vol. trans. O. M. Dalton. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967
*
Josef Strzygowski
Josef Rudolph Thomas Strzygowski (March 7, 1862 – January 2, 1941) was a Polish-Austrian art historian known for his theories promoting influences from the art of the Near East on European art, for example that of Early Christian Armenian archi ...
, ''Origin of Christian Church Art (1923), translation with
Hermann Justus Braunholtz.
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1866 births
1945 deaths
Employees of the British Museum
British art historians
British archaeologists
Byzantine archaeologists