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Colonial official · Lawyer / legislator

Charles Walpole

fl. 1885–1888 · United Kingdom

British colonial official and lawyer, active 1885–1888. Worked at Larnaca.

Life and work

  1. December 1885 – January 1886
    Presided as judge in Watkins v. Warren, Larnaca: Charles Watkins sued the Chief Secretary Falkland Warren for a third of the antiquities from Frangissa (Pera-Frangissa, near Tamassos) and damages. Judgment for Warren, Watkins to pay costs. Walpole's judgment blamed Ohnefalsch-Richter, saying he 'began with the intention of deceiving the defendant and he has ended by cheating the plaintiff' (Cyprus Herald 9 Jan 1886, quoted by Given).

    LarnacaGiven 2001, pp. 258-259

  2. January 1886
    RulingAs judge, found for Falkland Warren against Charles Watkins; Given (2001, 259) quotes his judgment that Ohnefalsch-Richter had 'been playing fast and loose with both Plaintiff and Defendant'.

    Given 2001, p. 259

  3. 1888
    Named as 'Mr. Walpole of Larnaca' among those thanked by Hogarth for kindness shown to the 1888 Paphos expedition (Gardner, Hogarth, James, Elsey Smith).

    LarnacaGardner et al. 1888

Connections

4 people
Max Ohnefalsch-RichterFalkland WarrenCharles F. WatkinsWilliam CollyerCharles Walpole
Colleagues

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.Michael Given (2001). “The fight for the past: Watkins vs. Warren (1885-6) and the control of excavation”. Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction, 255-260. London, British Museum.
  2. 2.E. A. Gardner, D. G. Hogarth, M. R. James, R. Elsey Smith (1888). “Excavations in Cyprus, 1887-88”. Journal of Hellenic Studies 9, 147-271.