Bunnell Lewis
Bunnell Lewis (26 July 1824 – 2 July 1908) was an English archaeologist, for many years an academic at Queen's College, Cork, Ireland.
Life
Lewis was born in London on 26 July 1824; he was the eldest of twelve children of William Jones Lewis, a surgeon, and his first wife Mary Bunnell, a descendant of
In the same year he was appointed professor of Latin at Queen's College, Cork, an appointment which he held until 1905. He laboured to make archaeology an integral part of university education, and with that end in view collected objects of art and antiquity for the museum of his college. At the foundation of the Queen's University of Ireland he took an active part in its administration, and held the office of examiner in Latin for four years.[1]
Lewis early devoted his attention to archaeology, being elected
Lewis died at his home in Cork on 2 July 1908, and was buried at Cork. He bequeathed to University College, London, his classical and archaeological library and £1000 for a Bunnell Lewis Prize for proficiency in original Latin verse and in translations from Latin and Greek.[1]
Family
He married in 1855 Jane (died 1867), second daughter of the Rev. John Whitley, D.D., chancellor of Killaloe; he married in 1871 Louise Emily (died 1882), daughter of Admiral Bowes-Watson of Cambridge. He left no children.[1]
Publications
Besides his archaeological papers and contributions to the second (revised) edition of William Smith's Latin Dictionary, he published A Letter to J. Robson, Esq., on the Slade Professorships of Fine Art (1869), and Remarks on Ivory Cabinets in the Possession of Wickham Flowor, Esq., (1871).[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Welsh, Charles (1912). Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 458–459. . In
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34511. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Welsh, Charles (1912). "Lewis, Bunnell". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 458–459.