Ernest Arthur Gardner
Ernest Arthur Gardner (16 March 1862 – 27 November 1939) was an English
Early life
Gardner was born in Clapton, London, England on 16 March 1862[1] to Thomas Gardner and Ann Pearse.[2] He was educated at the City of London School, a boys' private day school located in the City of London. He entered Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1880. He read for a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Classics and graduated with a double first in 1884.[1]
Career
Early academic career
Gardner became a fellow of Gonville and Caius College in 1885.[3] In 1885 and 1886, as part of the Egypt Exploration Society, he was involved in the excavations at Naucratis, Egypt. He became a student of the British School at Athens under Francis Penrose in 1886.[2] From 1887 to 1895 he was director of the school.[1] During his first term as director, he led excavations at Old Paphos and Salamis in Cyprus.[2] When his directorship was extended in 1891,[4] he led an excavation in Megalopolis, Greece.[2]
After resigning from the British School at Athens in 1895,
Military service
At the outbreak of
Later career and life
Gardner resigned from his positions as Public Orator of London University in 1929[1] and as editor of The Journal of Hellenic Studies in 1932.[2] He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of London between 1924 and 1926.[1] From 1929 to 1932, he was president of the Hellenic Society.[4] He continued lecturing at the University of London until 1933.[2]
Gardner died on 27 November 1939 in Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom.[1]
Personal life
Gardner married Mary Wilson (died 1936) in 1887.[2] Together they had one son and two daughters.[4] His daughter Phyllis Gardner was a writer and artist, whose relationship with poet Rupert Brooke has come to light with two 2015 publications.
His sister Alice Gardner was a historian and his brother, Percy Gardner, was also an archaeologist.[5]
Select works
His publications include: Introduction to Greek Epigraphy (1887); Ancient Athens (1902); Handbook of Greek Sculpture (1905); Six Greek Sculptors (1910);[3] "Poet and Artist in Greece: With Illustrations" (1933; Japanese translation by Keiji Kokubu available, Sogensha Press, 1944).
See also
- List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of London
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Gardner, Ernest Arthur (GRDR880EA)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Gardner, Ernest A(rthur)". Dictionary of Art Historians. Archived from the original on 15 June 2012. Retrieved 25 June 2012.
- ^ a b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 462.
- ^ a b c d e f g J. M. C. Toynbee & H. D. A. Major (2004). "Gardner, Ernest Arthur (1862–1939)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 25 June 2012.
- ^ Gillian Sutherland, 'Gardner, Alice (1854–1927)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 21 Feb 2017