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Colonial official · Lawyer / legislator

Walter Sendall

fl. 1884–1898 · United Kingdom

Colonial governor, active 1884–1898.

Life and work

  1. 1892
    Told the Ottoman side (via Constantinople) that the Ottoman antiquities law of 1884, passed after the British occupation, did not apply to Cyprus, when the Ottoman foreign ministry asked that all export of antiquities from Cyprus be stopped. Cited Colonial Office records C.O. 67/76 (14 Oct 1892) and 77 (30 Nov 1892).

    Tatton-Brown 2001, p. 268, n. 18/19

  2. 1892
    When the British Museum excavations (Turner Bequest) were first mooted, expressed the hope that the opportunity could be used to reorganise and catalogue the Cyprus Museum collection.

    Ulbrich & Kiely 2012, p. 48

  3. 1893–1897
    Letters from Sendall on excavations in Cyprus (14 Aug 1893; 24 Sept 1897) are listed in the Tatton-Brown index of British Museum manuscripts and correspondence.

    Tatton-Brown 2001

  4. 30 June 1896
    Enacted the law 'To Regulate and Place Upon a Better Footing the Cyprus Museum' (gazetted 3 July 1896; later disallowed). Art. 11(2): no object of antiquity to be exported unless a similar object was already in the Museum.

    Merrillees 2009, p. 11

Connections

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Scholarship

On Ancient Cyprus

1 page

Sources

  1. 1.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.
  2. 2.Anja Ulbrich, Thomas Kiely (2012). “Britain and the Archaeology of Cyprus. I. The long 19th century”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42. Online
  3. 3.T. Kiely, R. S. Merrillees (2012). “The archaeological interests of Samuel Brown, government engineer, and his circle of acquaintances in late nineteenth-century Cyprus”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42, 245-272. Online
  4. 4.R. S. Merrillees (2009). “The modern history of the first Lambousa treasure of Byzantine silverware from Cyprus”. The Antiquaries Journal 89, 389-403. Online
  5. 5.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.