Percy Gardner was Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge from 1879 to 1887.
13 Facts About Percy Gardner
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Percy Gardner was Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at the University of Oxford from 1887 to 1925.
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Percy Gardner was educated at the City of London School to the age of fifteen when he joined his father's stockbroker business.
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Percy Gardner graduated with a first-class Bachelor of Arts in the classics and moral sciences tripos in 1869.
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From 1871 to 1887, Percy Gardner was an assistant in the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum.
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Percy Gardner was elected a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge in 1872.
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Percy Gardner held the first editorship of The Journal of Hellenic Studies from 1879 to 1895.
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Percy Gardner was Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge from 1879 to 1886.
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Percy Gardner then moved to the University of Oxford and held the Lincoln and Merton Professorship of Classical Archaeology from 1887 to 1925.
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Percy Gardner was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1903.
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Percy Gardner was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the Archaeological Institute of America.
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Percy Gardner was married to Agnes Reid until their marriage broke down in 1874.
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Percy Gardner's sister Alice Gardner was a historian and her brother, Ernest Arthur Gardner, was an archaeologist.