Warwick William Wroth (24 August 1858 – 26 September 1911) 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 ...

and

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. He was Senior Assistant Keeper of Coins and Medals in the

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and one of the original contributors to the '' Dictionary of National Biography'', with which he was associated almost until its completion.

Life

Wroth was born in Clerkenwell, the eldest son of the Rev. Warwick Reed Wroth, vicar of St. Philip's Clerkenwell. He attended the

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, where he received a classical training, and joined the staff of the British Museum as an assistant in th
Department of Coins and Medals
in July 1878.

Publications

Wroth contributed to the series of British Museum Catalogues of Greek Coins, and wrote articles for the ''

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'', the ''

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'', '' The Athenaeum'' and ''

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''. He also wrote a series of biographies of numismatists, medallists, coin-engravers which were published in the '' Dictionary of National Biography''. The following list is a selection of his publications: *Volumes in the series ''British Museum Catalogue of Greek Coins'': **Crete and the Aegean Islands (1886) **Pontus, Paphlygonia, etc (1889) **Mysia (1892) **Troas, Aeolia, and Lesbos (1894) **Galatia, Cappadocia, and Syria (1899) **Parthia (1903) *Volumes in the series ''British Museum Catalogue of Roman Coins'': **Imperial Byzantine Coins (1908) **Coins of the Vandals, Ostrogoths, and Lombards, etc (1911)
''The London Pleasure Gardens of the Eighteenth Century''
(1896) (with his brother, E. A. Wroth)
''Cremorne and the Later London Pleasure Gardens''
(1907) (See

Cremorne Gardens, London Cremorne Gardens were popular pleasure gardens by the side of the River Thames in Chelsea, London. They lay between Chelsea Harbour and the end of the King's Road and flourished between 1845 and 1877; today only a vestige survives, on the r ...

.) See also the bibliography of Wroth's work, by John Allan.John Allan's "Bibliography of Warwick Wroth", in ''Numismatic Chronicle'' (1912) 109–110. Wroth was best known to the general public for his scholarly work on ''London Pleasure Gardens'', published by Macmillan in 1896, in which he was helped by his brother, E. A. Wroth. Wroth had made this subject a speciality for many years, and had accumulated a considerable amount of curious and out-of-the-way material.

References

;Attribution *Adapted from subject's obituary in ''

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External links

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openlibrary.org list of works
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wroth, Warwick William Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London 1858 births 1911 deaths English numismatists Employees of the British Museum Scholars of Byzantine numismatics