Charles Thomas Newton
b. c. 1816 d. 1894
Archaeologist. Educated at Shrewsbury School and Christ Church, Oxford; BA, 1837; MA, 1840. Assistant in the department of antiquities, British Museum, 1840–52. Led excavations in Greece and Turkey while serving in various consular posts from 1853. Keeper of Greek and Roman antiquities, British Museum, 1861–85. Professor of classical archaeology, University College, London, 1880–8. Knighted, 1887.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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