Collector · Museum staff
Ernest Thomas Charles Joly
1859–1932
Bank accountant. Lived at Nicosia. Gave to Henry Rider Haggard; child of Henry Perigal Borrell and Stephen Joly.
Life and work
- 15 March 1887Rider Haggard's notebook records 'viewings and/or purchases' involving 'Jolly' [sic] on 15 March 1887 (Haggard's first visit to Cyprus); the objects Haggard took out included about 20 pieces of pottery, a bronze bowl and glass (permit 4 April 1887).
- 1890Moved to Beirut.
BeirutMerrillees 2017
Connections
5 peopleSales, gifts & bequests
- Gave to Henry Rider Haggard1887
Family
- Sibling of Samuel Brown1885
- Child of Henry Perigal Borrell
- Child of Stephen Joly
- Sibling of Zoë Melita Brown (née Joly)
Colleagues & contacts
- Connected with Samuel Brown1885
- Connected with Henry Rider Haggard1887
- Connected with Henry Perigal Borrell
Objects
Joly's collection of Cypriote antiquities (whereabouts unknown today)
Sources
- 1.T. Kiely, R. S. Merrillees (2012). “The archaeological interests of Samuel Brown, government engineer, and his circle of acquaintances in late nineteenth-century Cyprus”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42, 245-272. Online
- 2.Robert S. Merrillees (2017). “Cypriote antiquities in Late Ottoman Istanbul and Smyrna - II: Cypriote antiquities in the Greek Evangelical School Museum and their Trading in Late Ottoman Smyrna (Modern Izmir)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 47, 121-164. Online
- 3.J. L. Myres, M. Ohnefalsch-Richter (1899). A Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum. Oxford, Clarendon Press.