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Sir Charles Thomas Newton KCB (16 September 1816 – 28 November 1894) was a British archaeologist. He was made KCB in 1887. Life [ edit] He was born in 1816, the second son of Newton Dickinson Hand Newton, vicar of Clungunford, Shropshire, and afterwards of Bredwardine, Herefordshire .
Sir Charles Thomas Newton was a British archaeologist who excavated sites in southwestern Turkey and disinterred the remains of one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus (at present-day Bodrum, Turkey).
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Sep 16, 2021 · On September 16, 1816, British archeologist Sir Charles Thomas Newton was born. Newton excavated sites in southwestern Turkey and disinterred the remains of one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus (at present-day Bodrum, Turkey ).
Sir Charles Thomas Newton primary name: Newton, Charles Thomas Details individual; curator; archaeologist; British; Male. Life dates 1816-1894. Biography Keeper of ...
Aug 26, 2010 · Books. Travels and Discoveries in the Levant, Volume 1. Charles Thomas Newton. Cambridge University Press, Aug 26, 2010 - History - 416 pages. C. T. Newton (1816-1894) was a British...
SIR CHARLES THOMAS NEWTON (1816-1894), British archaeologist, was born on the 16th of September 1816, at Bredwardine in Herefordshire, and educated at Shrewsbury School and Christ Church, Oxford. He entered the British Museum in 1840 as an assistant in the Antiquities Department.
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Overview. Archaeologist and vase scholar; built major collections for the British Museum as Keeper of Department of Antiquities. Newton was educated at Christ Church, Oxford where he received his B. A. in 1837 and M.A. in 1840. He joined the British Museum that same year.
