Franks, [Augustus] Wollaston, Sir

Date born:  1826

Place Born:  Geneva, Switzerland

Date died:  1897

Place died:  London, United Kingdom

Numismatist;  archaeologist;  Keeper of the department of British and Medieval Antiquities and ethnography, British Museum;  assembled major collections for the British Museum, responsible for diversify British Museum Collections to non-West (Japanese) porcellains and other areas. He hired the medievalist and later keeper of the department, Ormonde M. Dalton in 1885.

Home Country:  United Kingdom

Sources:  A. W. Franks:  Nineteenth-century Collecting and the British Museum.  Marjorie Caygill and John Cherry, eds.  London:  British Museum Press, 1997.  DNB vol. 22 (supplement) 665-668.

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Subject's name: Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks