ARCHAEOLOGIST

Mortimer Wheeler

1890 - 1976

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Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler CH CIE MC TD (10 September 1890 – 22 July 1976) was a British archaeologist and officer in the British Army. Over the course of his career, he served as Director of both the National Museum of Wales and London Museum, Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India, and the founder and Honorary Director of the Institute of Archaeology in London, in addition to writing twenty-four books on archaeological subjects. Born in Glasgow to a middle-class family, Wheeler was raised largely in Yorkshire before moving to London in his teenage years. After studying classics at University College London (UCL), he began working professionally in archaeology, specialising in the Romano-British period. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mortimer Wheeler is the 109th most popular archaeologist (up from 111th in 2019), the 3,948th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,845th in 2019) and the 21st most popular British Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Mortimer Wheeler ranks 109 out of 151. Before him are Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac, Henri Frankfort, John Evans, Leon Kozłowski, E. A. Wallis Budge, and Akurgal. After him are Phillip V. Tobias, Stith Thompson, José Leite de Vasconcelos, Désiré Charnay, Davidson Black, and Lewis Binford.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Mortimer Wheeler ranks 189. Before him are Suniti Kumar Chatterji, Herbert Marshall, Gustaf Weidel, Karl Lashley, Paul Whiteman, and Robert Lindsay. After him are Cecil Kellaway, Jean Piot, Gopinath Bordoloi, Robert Armstrong, Julie Vinter Hansen, and Luís de Freitas Branco. Among people deceased in 1976, Mortimer Wheeler ranks 193. Before him are Taos Amrouche, Abram Room, Jimmy Reed, Ritwik Ghatak, Alexander Brailowsky, and Hugo Wieslander. After him are Stith Thompson, Jens Bjørneboe, Carl Benjamin Boyer, Narve Bonna, Markus Reiner, and Tarab Abdul Hadi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mortimer Wheeler ranks 3,949 out of 8,785. Before him are Wilfrid Hyde-White (1903), Michael Winner (1935), Billy Hughes (1862), Ælfric of Eynsham (955), Fred Frith (1949), and Mary Garden (1874). After him are Georges Passerieu (1885), Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet (1800), Leo Sayer (1948), Richard Lynn (1930), William Fothergill Cooke (1806), and Zac Goldsmith (1975).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, Mortimer Wheeler ranks 21. Before him are Dorothy Garrod (1892), Kathleen Kenyon (1906), Dorothea Bate (1878), John Marshall (1876), John Evans (1823), and E. A. Wallis Budge (1857). After him are James Mellaart (1925), Charles Dawson (1864), John Beazley (1885), Grahame Clark (1907), James Prinsep (1799), and Meave Leakey (1942).

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