Sir Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson,
FBA (1887–1976), usually known as (Sir) Stanley Robinson, was a
numismatist
A numismatist is a specialist in numismatics ("of coins"; from Late Latin ''numismatis'', genitive of ''numisma''). Numismatists include collectors, specialist dealers, and scholars who use coins and other currency in object-based research. Altho ...
, specializing in Greek and Roman coins. He was Keeper of the
Department of Coins and Medals at the
British Museum
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.
["Sir Edward Robinson Authority on Greek Coins." The Times (London). June 15, 1976; p. 16.]
Biography
Robinson studied at
Clifton College
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, Bristol, and
Christ Church, Oxford. He joined the British School in Athens, 1910–11, and then the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum in 1912. He enlisted in the army in 1914, but was wounded in combat in France, and, after a stint at the Home Office, returned to the British Museum, eventually becoming Deputy Keeper in 1936, and Keeper (Head) of the Department, 1949–52. He was then appointed Reader in Numismatics, at the University of Oxford, and advised art collector
Calouste Gulbenkian
Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian (, Western hy, Գալուստ Կիւլպէնկեան; 23 March 1869 – 20 July 1955), nicknamed "Mr Five Per Cent", was a British-Armenian businessman and philanthropist. He played a major role in making the petrole ...
on his numismatic collection which is now on display in the
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
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. He retired in 1955, but continued to advise in the Heberden Coin Room at the
Ashmolean Museum
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology () on Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, is Britain's first public museum. Its first building was erected in 1678–1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities that Elias Ashmole gave to the University of ...
, Oxford, to which he endowed his own collection in 1964. The ESG Robinson Trust continues to support numismatics.
He married Pamela Horsley in 1917.
Awards and honours
* 1910 Winner of the Barclay Head Prize
* 1955 Awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford
* 1972 Robinson was knighted
Selected publications
* 1911 "Inscriptions from Lycia", Journal of Hellenic Studies 34 (1914), pp. 1–35 (with H.A. Ormerod).
* 1914 "Coins from Lycia and Pamphylia." Journal of Hellenic Studies 34 (1914), pp. 36–46.
* 1915 "Quaestiones Cyrenaicae", Numismatic Chronicle, 4th series, no. 15 (1915), pp. 53–104, 137–178, 249–293.
* 1920 "A find of coins of Sinope", Numismatic Chronicle, 4th series, no. 20 (1920), pp. 1–16.
* 1927 Catalogue of the Greek coins of Cyrenaica (London: British Museum).
* 1931 The Collection of Capt. E.G. Spencer-Churchill, M.C., of Northwick Park
ndThe Salting Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum (London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press).
* 1931 Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum (British Academy).
* 1933 (with Harold Mattingly) The Date of the Roman Denarius and Other Landmarks in Early Roman Coinage (London: H. Milford).
* 1933 Lloyd, Albert Hugh. The Lloyd Collection (London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press).
* 1936 (with John Allan and Harold Mattingly) Transactions of the International Numismatic Congress, Royal Numismatic Society.
* 1936 The Newnham Davis Coins in the Wilson Collection of Classical and Eastern Antiquities, Marischal College, Aberdeen (London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press)
* 1937 "A gold comb – or pin-head from Egypt", Journal of Hellenic Studies 57 (1937), p. 79.
* 1946 "Rhegion, Zankle-Messana and the Samians", Journal of Hellenic Studies 66 (1946), pp. 13–20.
* 1951 "The coins from the Ephesian Artemision reconsidered", Journal of Hellenic Studies 71 (1951), pp. 156–67.
* 1958 The Beginnings of Achaemenid Coinage, Numismatic Chronicle 18 (1958), pp. 187–93.
* 1973 "A hoard of Greek coins from Southern Anatolia?", Revue numismatique, 6th series, no. 15 (1973), pp. 229–237.
For a complete list of publications, see "Bibliography of Stanley Robinson's works 1914–1966" in Colin M. Kraay and G. Kenneth Jenkins (eds), Essays in Greek Coinage Presented to Stanley Robinson (Oxford: Clarendon Press), 1968, pp. 259–263.
References
Further reading
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C. H. V. Sutherland
Carol Humphrey Vivian Sutherland, CBE (5 May 1908 – 14 May 1986), known as Humphrey Sutherland, was an English numismatist.
Sutherland was born in Merton Park, Surrey. He was the younger brother of the painter Graham Sutherland. He was ...
"Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson, 1887–1976" ''
Proceedings of the British Academy
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'', vol. 63 (1977), pp. 423–440.
External links
* "Sir Edward Robinson Authority on Greek Coins." The Times (London). June 15, 1976; p. 16.
E S G Robinson on Digital Library NumisE S G Robinson on Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (by Nicholas Mayhew)E S G Robinson in National ArchivesE S G Robinson in Dictionary of Art Historians
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1887 births
1976 deaths
Employees of the British Museum
People associated with the Ashmolean Museum
British curators
English numismatists