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Colonial official · Museum staff

Sir Elliott Bovill

fl. 1882–1888 · United Kingdom

British colonial official and museum staff member, active 1882–1888. Worked at Nicosia. Worked with Claude Delaval Cobham and Robert Biddulph.

Life and work

  1. 1882
    Named (as E. Bouvill / E. Bovill) among the elected members of the first Cyprus Museum Committee, formed after the petition of 15 June 1882 to High Commissioner Sir Robert Biddulph; Stylianou-Lambert & Bounia place him with C. Cobham, S. Brown, W. Corby and H. H. Kitchener among the representatives of government interests.

    NicosiaMarangou 2000, p. 353Stylianou-Lambert & Bounia 2016, p. 224 n. 16

  2. 1888
    Per Ohnefalsch-Richter, the Museum Council at Nicosia, 'with Sir Elliott Bowill, the Lord Chief Justice, the Archbishop and the Kadi at their head', asked that he be sent as representative of the government and the Island Museum to the Cyprus Exploration Fund excavations; the government refused and named Hogarth inspector instead. Ohnefalsch-Richter's own account.

    CyprusOhnefalsch-Richter 1893, p. 511

  3. 1888
    Thanked by Ernest Gardner for kindness to the members of the Cyprus Exploration Fund expedition (printed 'His Excellency the High Commissioner, Sir Elliott Bovill').

    CyprusGardner et al. 1888

Connections

3 people
Demetrios PieridesClaude Delaval CobhamRobert BiddulphSir Elliott Bovill
Colleagues

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.A. G. Marangou (ed.) (2000). The Consul Luigi Palma di Cesnola 1832-1904: Life and Deeds.
  2. 2.T. Stylianou-Lambert, A. Bounia (2016). The Political Museum: Power, Conflict, and Identity in Cyprus.
  3. 3.Max Ohnefalsch-Richter (1893). Kypros, the Bible and Homer. London, Asher & Co.. Online
  4. 4.E. A. Gardner, D. G. Hogarth, M. R. James, R. Elsey Smith (1888). “Excavations in Cyprus, 1887-88”. Journal of Hellenic Studies 9, 147-271.