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Lionel Chester Hart Massey

1916–1965 · Canada

Associate Director of the Royal Ontario Museum through whose good offices Lady Loch's gift of about 300 Cypriot antiquities reached Toronto in 1965; the 1966 exhibition was held in his memory.

Biography

The Loch collection of Cypriot antiquities reached the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto in 1965 through Lionel Massey, who died that July. He was the elder son of Vincent Massey; the museum appointed him Director of Administration in 1961 and Associate Director in 19631,2. The museum's catalogue says that Lord and Lady Loch were friends of Vincent Massey1.

The gift of about 300 antiquities came from the Dowager Lady Loch in the summer of 1965. The museum's report for 1965-66 says that it was received "through his good offices"2. The next year's report repeats that the collection came "through his efforts"3.

He died suddenly in July 1965, on 28 July according to Wikipedia1,2,6. The museum showed the collection from 18 October to 26 December 1966 as the Lionel Massey memorial exhibition1,4.

Life and work

  1. 1961
  2. 1965
    The Dowager Lady Loch's gift of about 300 Cypriot antiquities (given summer 1965) came to the Royal Ontario Museum through his good offices; the foreword links the Lochs to his father Vincent Massey as friends

    Toronto(1966). Annual report: July 1965 - June 1966. Royal Ontario Museum, 2-3, 8; (1966). The Loch collection of Cypriote antiquities: Lionel Massey memorial exhibition. Royal Ontario Museum, University of Toronto. University of Toronto Press; (1967). Annual report: July 1966 - June 1967. Royal Ontario Museum

  3. 28 July 1965
  4. 18 October 1966 – 26 December 1966
    The Loch collection shown at the Royal Ontario Museum as the Lionel Massey Memorial Exhibition, catalogue by the museum's Greek and Roman Department

    Toronto(1966). Staff Bulletin. Royal Ontario Museum, 5, p. 5; (1966). Annual report: July 1965 - June 1966. Royal Ontario Museum, 2-3, 8; (1967). Annual report: July 1966 - June 1967. Royal Ontario Museum

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Institutions · 1

  • Royal Ontario Museum

    Director of Administration, then Associate Director from 1963 · 1961

    The Loch collection of Cypriote antiquities 1966; Annual report 1966

Sources

  1. 1. (1966). “The Loch collection of Cypriote antiquities: Lionel Massey memorial exhibition”. Royal Ontario Museum, University of Toronto. University of Toronto Press.
  2. 2. (1966). “Annual report: July 1965 - June 1966”. Royal Ontario Museum, 2-3, 8.
  3. 3. (1967). “Annual report: July 1966 - June 1967”. Royal Ontario Museum.
  4. 4. (1966). “Staff Bulletin”. Royal Ontario Museum, 5.
  5. 5. (1967). “President's report for the year ended June 1967”. University of Toronto.
  6. 6.“Lionel Massey (Wikipedia)”. Online
  7. 7.Lionel Chester Hart Massey (WikiTree Massey-3758). Online
  8. 8.N. Leipen, 1966, The Loch Collection of Cypriote Antiquities: Lionel Massey Memorial Exhibition, leaf 7.
  9. 9.1966, Annual report: July 1965 - June 1966, Greek and Roman Department; 1967, Annual report: July 1966 - June 1967, Director's report.
  10. 10.Royal Ontario Museum, Annual report: July 1965 - June 1966 (1966).

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