The great collection that had been formed by Charles Townley[18] was purchased in 1805 by Act of Parliament, 45 Geo. III. cap. 127, for £20,000, a sum greatly below the value of the sculptures. Charles Townley (1737-1805), of Townley, in Lancashire, acquired a large part of his marbles, during a residence in Italy, between 1768 and 1772, but continued collecting, after his return to England. The chief sources from which he formed his museum were the following: (1) the older Roman collections, from which Townley made numerous purchases; (2) the excavations carried on by Gavin Hamilton, a Scotch painter living in Rome (died 1797), and by Thomas Jenkins, an English banker; (3) occasional purchases from older English collections. Thus the relief of Exakestes[19] was derived from the collection of Dr. Richard Mead (see above). The relief of Xanthippos[20] had been brought to England by Dr. Anthony Askew, a physician, who visited Athens and the East, about 1747, and compiled a manuscript volume of inscriptions, now in the British Museum (Burney MSS., No. 402). Several pieces[21] were also obtained from the collection formed at Wimbledon by Lyde Browne, a virtuoso and Director of the Bank of England, who died in 1787. The accession of the Townley Collection in 1805 made necessary the erection of a special building in the garden of the then existing Montague House, and also caused the creation of a separate Department under Taylor Combe, for the custody of the antiquities, which had been previously attached to the Library. In 1814, the Phigaleian sculptures were purchased of the explorers[22] in a public auction at Zante, and the Museum thereby acquired its first series of sculptures from a Greek building. A fragment, which had been lost during the transportation of the marbles,[23] was presented by Mr. J. Spencer Stanhope in 1816.