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Traveller / antiquarian

Sir Samuel W. Baker

fl. 1878–2007 · United Kingdom

British traveller, active 1878–2007. Lived at Cyprus.

Life and work

  1. 1878
    Arrived on Cyprus (in the first months of British rule).

    CyprusMarangou 2000, p. 351

  2. 1879
    Published Cyprus as I saw it in 1879 (London). It records that the British authorities' ban on excavation had killed travellers' interest in antiquities, and praises Cesnola's book as the only available record; the ban is also cited from Baker by Ohnefalsch-Richter-era sources (ottoman-law-1874 note 25, p. 53-54).

    LondonMarangou 2000, p. 351 ; p. 379 n. 5Tatton-Brown 2001

Connections

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Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.A. G. Marangou (ed.) (2000). The Consul Luigi Palma di Cesnola 1832-1904: Life and Deeds.
  2. 2.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.
  3. 3.Samuel W. Baker (1879). Cyprus as I Saw It in 1879. London, Macmillan. Online