Hamilton Goold-Adams

Hamilton John Goold-Adams, a soldier born in 1858, was High Commissioner of Cyprus from 1911 to 1914, and in that office President of the committee that ran the Cyprus Museum^1,3. Harry Luke recalled in his memoir that the High Commissioner "granted himself an excavator's licence" and spent week-ends with Lady Goold-Adams and Luke clearing tombs at Phylleri in the Kyrenia mountains¹. What the tombs held, and where the finds went, is not recorded.

His official acts concern the museum. On 13 November 1911 the Committee authorised him to approve a scheme from George Jeffery for an extension costing no more than £50¹. On 11 February 1912 he sent the Colonial Secretary a memo on illicit excavation and dealing in antiquities, and Menelaos Markides, newly appointed Keeper, was told at once to act against illicit digging². In 1913 the Committee received a government grant for exploratory excavations supervised by J. L. Myres, who thanked him¹.

On 3 March 1915 the Committee minuted that a duplicate pair of earrings had been presented to Lady Goold Adams in recognition of her husband's services to the museum¹. He died on 12 April 1920³.