Percy Gardner

GARDNER, PERCY English classical archae ologist, was born in London, and was educated at the City of London school and Christ's college, Cambridge (fellow, 1872). He was Disney professor of archaeology at Cambridge (188o-8i), and professor of classical archaeology at Oxford (1887-1925). Gardner was a fellow of the British Academy and of other learned societies in many foreign countries. Among his works are : Types of Greek Coins (1883) ; A Numismatic Commentary on Pausa nias (with F. Imhoof-Blumer, 1887) ; New Chapters in Greek History (1892), an account of excavations in Greece and Asia Minor; Manual of Greek Antiquities (with F. B. Jevons, 2nd ed. 1898) ; Grammar of Greek Art (1905); Principles of Greek Art (1913) ; New Chapters in Greek Art (1926) ; and a number of works on theological and ecclesiastical subjects.

His brother,

ERNEST ARTHUR GARDNER (1862— ), educated at the City of London school and Caius college, Cambridge (fel low, 1885), was director (1887-95) of the British School at Athens, and later became professor of archaeology at University college, London, and dean of the university. His publications in clude: Introduction to Greek Epigraphy (1887) ; Catalogue of the Vases in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (1897) ; Ancient Athens (19o2) ; Handbook of Greek Sculpture (1905) ; new and enlarged ed. (1915) ; The Art of Greece (1925), etc.