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Jul 06, 1857 Died on 11 Feb 1929 (aged 71)
British archaeologist and curator
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About Charles Hercules Read
- Sir Charles Hercules Read, (6 July 1857 – 11 February 1929) was a British archaeologist and curator who became Keeper of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography at the British Museum, and President of the London Society of Antiquaries, following his mentor Augustus Wollaston Franks in the first position in 1896, and in the second from 1908–14 and again in 1919, after being Secretary since 1892.
- He began periods as President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland in 1899 and 1917.
- He was knighted in 1912 and retired from the British Museum in 1921.
- He usually dropped the "Charles" in his name, especially after he was knighted, though not consistently.
- "A man of handsome and even striking appearance", he was a major figure in British museum curation in his day, though he published relatively little.
