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Frederick Henry Marshall
fl. 1901–2001 · United Kingdom
F. H. Marshall, first Honorary Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum, and the name of a Marshall whose reading of a Salamis inscription Feissel cites.
Biography
C. L. Cooper's history of the Fitzwilliam Museum's antiquities department calls F. H. Marshall the first Honorary Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities there2. Cooper cites a letter from Marshall to Sydney Cockerell dated 3 December 19133.
A footnote in Cooper's article gives his career as Frederick Henry Marshall: at the British Museum from 1901 to 1912, then Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King's College London from 1926 to 1943. The note rests on the entry "Marshall, Frederick Henry" in the Dictionary of British Classicists (2004)3. The date of his Keepership is not recorded.
Denis Feissel's 2001 article on an imperial rescript and a dedication from the gymnasium at Salamis refers at three points to an earlier reading of the text published by a Marshall, and prints the initials F. H.1. The initials match, but neither Feissel nor Cooper says that this is the Fitzwilliam Keeper.
Life and work
- c. 1913Wrote to Cockerell in December 1913 (FMArchive Marshall-Cockerell 03/12/1913), cited in Cooper's account of the Honorary Keeper post; later became Honorary Keeper of Antiquities at the Fitzwilliam. Exact appointment date not read.
- 1926–1943Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King's College London (per Cooper's note citing Gill 2004).
- by 2001Published an earlier reading of the Salamis gymnasium inscription, discussed by Feissel (details of the Marshall publication not read).
Recording and study
1 record- Employed by1
1913F. H. Marshall was appointed the first Honorary Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities.
Employed by Fitzwilliam MuseumHistory of the Fitzwilliam…, p. 348
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11 mentionsDocuments · 9
- History of the Fitzwilliam Museum's Greek and Roman collection
Employed · 1913 · p. 348
F. H. Marshall was appointed the first Honorary Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities.
- Un rescript impérial et une consécration d'après une inscription du gymnase de Salamis
2001
published an earlier reading
Feissel 2001
- Collection de Clercq, Tome VII, Les bijoux et les pierres gravées
Ridder 1911
- For whom did the bell toll in ancient Greece? Archaic and Classical Greek bells at Sparta and beyond
- Naukratis: Greek Diversity in Egypt: Studies on East Greek Pottery and Exchange in the Eastern Mediterranean
Villing & Schlotzhauer 2006
- The Cypriote Surrender to Persia
Watkin 1987
Institutions · 2
- British Museum
Staff · 1901
Cooper 2012, n. 18
- Fitzwilliam Museum
First Honorary Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities · 1913
Cooper 2012, pp. 348
Sources
- 1.D. Feissel (2001). “Un rescript impérial et une consécration d'après une inscription du gymnase de Salamis”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 31, 189-207.
- 2.C. L. Cooper (2012). “The Antiquities Department takes shape: the Fitzwilliam in the early twentieth century”. Journal of the History of Collections. Oxford University Press.
- 3.Kate Cooper (C. L. Cooper) (2012). “Journal of the History of Collections paper on the Fitzwilliam antiquities department”. Journal of the History of Collections.
- 4.“History of the Fitzwilliam Museum's Greek and Roman collection”. Journal of the History of Collections. Online
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