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Gardner, Ernest Arthur

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Ernest Arthur Gardner (1862–1939), educated at the City of London school and Caius College, Cambridge (fellow, 1885), was a well-known archaeologist.

From 1887 to 1895 he was director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens, and later became professor of archaeology at University College London.

His publications include: Introduction to Greek Epigraphy (1887); Ancient Athens (1902); Handbook of Greek Sculpture (1905); Six Greek Sculptors (1910). He was elected first Public Orator of London University in 1910.

His brother, Percy Gardner, was also a prominent archaeologist.

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.


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