Francis Henry Hill Guillemard

Francis Henry Hill Guillemard (1852-1933), whom Ulbrich and Kiely describe as Reader in Geography at Cambridge², spent a considerable part of the early months of 1887 in Cyprus, saw what the first-season narrative of the Cyprus Exploration Fund calls "continual discoveries, legitimate and illegitimate", and on his return pressed for an expedition⁴. Cambridge considered a grant from the Worts Fund and the Hellenic Society was sounded, while the High Commissioner, Henry Bulwer, had resolved to discountenance private exploration but offered help to recognised scientific bodies⁴. Marangou credits Guillemard with founding the Fund after counting the legal and illegal excavations¹¹. The Fund was formed before the end of 1887 and worked at Old Paphos and other sites in the winter and spring of 1888⁴.

His diary, now at CAARI in Nicosia, records that on 14 May 1887 at Kyrenia he met Samuel Brown and his wife¹. Stanley-Price dates to 22 June 1887 a visit to the government "Museum" at Nicosia, where he bought four glass items and called it "a very poor place, nothing in it"³. He returned with E. A. Gardner about a month before the end of December 1887, and the two toured the west coast from Kyrenia to Amathus⁴.

In the Athenaeum of 14 April 1888 he argued that the perforated monoliths at Kouklia were parts of olive presses; David George Hogarth agreed, and thanked him for photographs⁸. In 1888 he gave the Fitzwilliam Museum items collected in 1887². Myres and Ohnefalsch-Richter note that finds taken by local people from the sanctuary at Mersineri went partly to the Fitzwilliam, "presented by Dr. F. H. H. Guillemard"¹⁰.