Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 2 of 2: With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870.Edwards, Edward
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Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 2 of 2: With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870.
Edwards, Edward
Book collectors -- Great Britain; British Museum
D’Ewes, Adrian, 237
D’Ewes, Sir Symonds, Notices of the Researches, the Political Career,
and the Antiquarian Collections of, 82, 83, 91, 97–99, 133, 237
D’Hancarville, J. B., 372, 375
Didyme, Ancient Sculpture brought from, 664
Digby, John, Earl of Bristol, 69
Dordogne, Exploration of the Caves of, and its results, 699
Doubleday, John, 463
Downing, Frances, 134
Downing, Sir George, 134, 262
Drawings, Collections of, 310, 408, 421
Dreux, M. de, Researches on the site of Ancient Carthage carried on by,
626
Dryander, Jonas, 509
Dudley, Edmund, 113
Dudley, Sir Robert, and the _Proposition to bridle the Impertinency of
Parliaments_, 110
Dugdale, Sir William, 435
Durand Collection of Vases, 715
Dureau de La Malle, Researches on the site of Ancient Carthage of, 626
Dutertre, M., 362
Dyson, Mr., Zoological Collections made in Venezuela by, 581
E.
Edmonds, Mr., 59
Edward VI, King of England, 64
Edwards, Major Arthur, Bequest in augmentation of the Cottonian
Library, made by, 142, 305;
this Bequest was, for a long period after the foundation of the
Museum, the mainstay of its Library, 443 and _foot-note_
Edwards, George, 301
Egerton, Francis, Earl of Ellesmere, 597
Egerton, Francis Henry, Earl of Bridgewater, Notices of the Life,
Character, and Testamentary Benefactions of, 446–455
Egerton, Francis, Duke of Bridgewater, K.G., 446
Egerton, Lady Katharine, 257
Egyptian Antiquities, Early History of the Collection of, 347 _seqq._,
362 _seqq._
Egyptian Glass in the Slade Collection, 708
Elgin, Thomas, Earl of. _See_ BRUCE
Eliot, Sir John, 56, 90, 93, 94, 96, 101
Elizabeth, Queen of England, 51, 103, 157
Ellesmere, Francis, Earl of. _See_ EGERTON
Ellis, Sir Henry, Notice of the Literary Labours and Public Services
of, 524–534, 549, 569
Elmsley, Thomas, 419
Empson, James, 304, 322
_Epistles of St. Ignatius_, Syriac Version of, 609
Erskine, William, Oriental MSS. of, 42
Esquimaux Collections made and bequeathed by Henry Christy, 699 _seqq._
Estcourt, T. B. Sotheron, 541
Ethnography and British and Mediæval Antiquities, Organization of the
Department of, 688
Etruria in Staffordshire, Debt to the Hamilton Vases of the Porcelain
Works established at, 353
_Evangeliary of King Ethelstan_, 98
Evelyn, John, 196, 201, 270
F.
Farmer, Richard, 476
Fellows, Sir Charles, Early Life and Travels of, 642;
his researches in Lycia and other parts of Asia, and his excavations
of ancient marbles, 644 _seqq._;
his death, 653;
his views of the date and archæological character of the Lycian
Marbles, 654 _seqq._
Fenwick, Sir John, 206
Fermor, Sir William, 199
Ferrers, Amphyllis, 120
Fitzalan, Henry, Earl of Arundel, 172
Fleetwood, Sir Robert, 254
Forbes, Edward, Researches in Lycia, of, 668
Forshall, Rev. Josiah, 141, 532
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