Harcourt-Smith, Cecil (Sir)

Date born: 1859

Place Born: Staines, Middlesex, England

Date died: 1944

Place died: Stoatley Bramley, Surrey, England

Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, archaeologist.  Early on he encouraged the son of a family friend, Trenchard Cox, then a Cambridge student, to seriously consider art museum work (Cox later became a director of the V&A).  He retired in 1924 and was succeeded by Eric Maclagan.

Home Country: United Kingdom

Sources: The Makers of Classical Archaeology:  A Reference Work.  New York:  Humanity Books, 2000 pp. 141-42.

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Subject's name: Sir Cecil Harcourt-Smith