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Museum director

Edward Maunde Thompson

fl. 1887–1909 · United Kingdom

British museum director, active 1887–1909.

Life and work

  1. 1887
    Named as one of three British Museum Keepers (with Sidney Colvin and Alexander Murray) on the founding committee of the Cyprus Exploration Fund; the BM gave no money initially but was to have first choice of the finds.

    Ulbrich & Kiely 2012

  2. 1888–1909
    Principal Librarian of the British Museum (Director also from 1898), the period of the Turner Bequest excavations in Cyprus.

    LondonTatton-Brown 2001, p. 168

Sources

  1. 1.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.
  2. 2.Anja Ulbrich, Thomas Kiely (2012). “Britain and the Archaeology of Cyprus. I. The long 19th century”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42. Online