Patron · Donor

Charles Hyde

Sir Charles Hyde

1876–1942 · United Kingdom

Birmingham newspaper proprietor. Gave to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.

Life and work

1937–1938
Principal private subscriber to James Stewart's Vounous excavation (also Marston, Beasley, the Craven Fund, Stewart's father, the Linnean Society's Sladen Fund); the final report is dedicated to him; his share of the finds went to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
VounousKiely 2017, p. 12 Powell 2013, p. 56

Connections

2 people

Sales, gifts & bequests

Financed James Rivers Barrington Stewart1937–1938
Gave to James Rivers Barrington Stewart1937–1938

Colleagues & contacts

Worked with Charles Marstonprobably1937
Connected with James Rivers Barrington Stewart

Sources

1.T. Kiely (2017). “Britain and the archaeology of Cyprus II: 1914 to the present day”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 47, 253-310. Online
2.Judy Powell (2013). Love's Obsession: The Lives and Archaeology of Jim and Eve Stewart. Kent Town, South Australia, Wakefield Press.
3.J. L. Myres (1951). “Review of Stewart, Vounous 1937-38”. Antiquity 25.
4.G. A. Shakespear (1942). “Sir Charles Hyde, Bt”. Nature 150, 684-685.