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The Society of Antiquaries of London (SAL) is the world’s premier Learned Society for heritage. It is based at Burlington House
Burlington House

Burlington House is a building on Piccadilly in London. It was originally a private Palladian architecture mansion, and was expanded in the mid 19th century after being purchased by the British government....
, Piccadilly
Piccadilly

Piccadilly is a major London street, running from Hyde Park Corner in the west to Piccadilly Circus in the east. It is completely within the city of Westminster....
, London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
, along with the Royal Academy
Royal Academy

The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London, England. As an academy, it functions to encourage British art, and has a membership of practising artists....
 and four other leading Learned Societies; the Linnean Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry
Royal Society of Chemistry

The Royal Society of Chemistry is a learned society in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemistry sciences." The organisation carries out research, publishes journals, books and databases, as well as hosting conferences, seminars and workshops....
, the Geological Society of London
Geological Society of London

The Geological Society of London is a learned society based in the United Kingdom with the aim of "investigating the mineral structure of the Earth"....
 and the Royal Astronomical Society
Royal Astronomical Society

The Royal Astronomical Society is a learned society that began as the Astronomical Society of London in 1820 to support astronomy research . It became the Royal Astronomical Society in 1831 on receiving its Royal Charter from William IV of the United Kingdom....
.

Royal Charter granted to the Society by George II
George II of Great Britain

George II was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-L?neburg and Prince-elector#High Offices and Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 until his death....
 in 1751 defines the Society's role as being "the encouragement, advancement and furtherance of the study and knowledge of the antiquities and history of this and other countries".






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The Society of Antiquaries of London (SAL) is the world’s premier Learned Society for heritage. It is based at Burlington House
Burlington House

Burlington House is a building on Piccadilly in London. It was originally a private Palladian architecture mansion, and was expanded in the mid 19th century after being purchased by the British government....
, Piccadilly
Piccadilly

Piccadilly is a major London street, running from Hyde Park Corner in the west to Piccadilly Circus in the east. It is completely within the city of Westminster....
, London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
, along with the Royal Academy
Royal Academy

The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London, England. As an academy, it functions to encourage British art, and has a membership of practising artists....
 and four other leading Learned Societies; the Linnean Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry
Royal Society of Chemistry

The Royal Society of Chemistry is a learned society in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemistry sciences." The organisation carries out research, publishes journals, books and databases, as well as hosting conferences, seminars and workshops....
, the Geological Society of London
Geological Society of London

The Geological Society of London is a learned society based in the United Kingdom with the aim of "investigating the mineral structure of the Earth"....
 and the Royal Astronomical Society
Royal Astronomical Society

The Royal Astronomical Society is a learned society that began as the Astronomical Society of London in 1820 to support astronomy research . It became the Royal Astronomical Society in 1831 on receiving its Royal Charter from William IV of the United Kingdom....
.

The Society's role

The Royal Charter granted to the Society by George II
George II of Great Britain

George II was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-L?neburg and Prince-elector#High Offices and Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 until his death....
 in 1751 defines the Society's role as being "the encouragement, advancement and furtherance of the study and knowledge of the antiquities and history of this and other countries". Although the term "antiquary" is no longer commonly used, it denotes a person interested in the study of the past through its material remains; today's antiquaries are drawn from the disciplines of archaeology
Archaeology

Archaeology, archeology, or arch?ology is the science that studies Homo cultures through the recovery, documentation, analysis, and interpretation of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, Artifact , features, Biofact s, and cultural landscape....
, history
HIStory

HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I is a double album by Michael Jackson, released on June 20, 1995, and is Jackson's ninth. The first disc, named "HIStory Begins" consists of a selection of Jackson's greatest hits from the singer's past fifteen years, while the second, named "HIStory Continues" features new songs, with the...
, architectural history
Architectural History

Architectural History is the main journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain .The journal is published each autumn....
, art history
Art history

Art history has historically been understood as the academic study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e.genre, design, format, and look.This includes the "major" arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture as well as the "minor" arts of ceramics, furniture, and other decorative objects....
, art conservation, heraldry
Heraldry

Heraldry is the profession, study, or art of devising, granting, and blazoning Coat of arms and ruling on questions of rank or protocol, as exercised by an officer of arms....
, cultural resource management and ecclesiastical studies. The continuing use of the word in the Society's name reflects both the antiquity of the Society and its continuing broad range of cross-disciplinary interests.

Membership

Members of the Society are known as Fellows and are entitled to use the initials FSA after their names. Fellows are elected by existing members of the Society. Fellowship is regarded as recognition of significant achievement in the heritage field.

The Society has grown to some 2,500 Fellows, including directors of national museums and galleries, heads of university departments and directors of conservation charities, as well as well-known authors, journalists and broadcasters, bishops, peers and MPs, actors, poets, musicians, scientists, lawyers and doctors – all distinguished by their heritage expertise.

Well-known Fellows of the Society include HRH The Duke of Gloucester
Duke of Gloucester

Duke of Gloucester is a British royal title , often conferred on one of the sons of the reigning monarch. The first four creations were in the Peerage of England, the next in the Peerage of Great Britain, and the last in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; this current creation carries with it the subsidiary titles of Earl of Ulster an...
, Sir David Attenborough
David Attenborough

Sir David Frederick Attenborough Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour, Royal Victorian Order, Order of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal Society is a broadcasting and naturalist....
, David Starkey
David Starkey

David Robert Starkey, Order of the British Empire, Society of Antiquaries of London is an England historian, a television and radio presenter, and a specialist in the Tudor dynasty....
, Loyd Grossman
Loyd Grossman

Loyd Daniel Gilman Grossman QC, Order of the British Empire, Society of Antiquaries of London OFM is an England-United States television presenter and chef who mainly works in the UK....
, the Bishop of London
Bishop of London

The Bishop of London is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of London in the Province of Canterbury.The diocese covers 458 km? of 17 boroughs of Greater London north of the Thames and a small part of the County of Surrey....
, the actor Robert Hardy
Robert Hardy

Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy, Order of the British Empire is an England actor with a long career in the theatre, film and television. He is also an acknowledged expert on the longbow....
, the poet James Fenton
James Fenton

James Fenton has been, at various times, a journalist, poet, literary criticism, and professor....
, the Directors of the National Gallery
National gallery

A national gallery is a country's major public art gallery. Among the galleries which have this name are:*Australia:**National Gallery of Australia, Canberra...
 (Nicholas Penny
Nicholas Penny

Nicholas Penny is a British art historian. Since Spring 2008 he has been director of the National Gallery, London in London.Penny was educated at Shrewsbury School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and took his postgraduate studies at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London....
) and the British Museum
British Museum

The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture situated in London. Its collections, which number more than 7 million Object , are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginning to the present....
 (Neil MacGregor
Neil MacGregor

Robert Neil MacGregor is an art historian and museum director. He was the Director of the National Gallery, London from 1987 to 2002, and then became Director of the British Museum....
), the tenor Robert Tear
Robert Tear

Robert Tear is a Wales tenor and conductor. His operatic debut was in 1966 as Peter Quint in The Turn of the Screw on the English Opera Group's tour of England and Russia....
, several members of Channel 4
Channel 4

Channel 4 is a UK Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom television broadcaster which began transmissions on 2 November 1982. Although commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the #Channel Four Television...
's 'Time Team
Time Team

Time Team is a United Kingdom Television program that has aired on Channel 4 since 1994. Presented by the actor Tony Robinson, the series features a team of specialists doing an archaeology Excavation in three days, with Robinson explaining the process Wiktionary:in layman's terms....
', and Peter Durrant, County Archivist of Berkshire.

Library and publications

The Society has the leading archaeological and cultural heritage library in the UK. The contents include rare drawings, by Turner
Turner

Turner can refer to:*One who uses a lathe for turning*A kitchen utensil closely related to a spatula...
 and Blake
Blake

Blake is a surname or a given name which originated from Old English. Its derivation is uncertain; it could come from "blac", a nickname for someone who had dark hair or skin, or from "blaac", a nickname for someone with pale hair or skin....
 amongst others, and manuscripts, such as the Domesday book and the inventory of all Henry VIII's possessions at the time of his death.

The Society publishes the Antiquaries Journal, and an entertaining and influential fortnightly online newsletter called Salon (Society of Antiquaries Online Newsletter).

Tercentenary

A precursor organisation, the College of Antiquaries, was founded in 1586 and functioned largely as a debating society until it was forbidden to do so by James I
James I of England

James VI and I was List of monarchs of Scotland as James VI, and List of English monarchs and King of Ireland as James I. He ruled in Kingdom of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567, when he was only one year old, succeeding his mother Mary I of Scotland....
 in 1614, but today's Society traces its origins to the first meeting of the Society of Antiquaries, which took place in the Bear Tavern on the The Strand
Strand, London

The Strand is a street in the City of Westminster, London, England. It currently starts at Trafalgar Square and runs east to join Fleet Street at Temple Bar London, which marks the boundary of the City of London at this point, though its #History has been longer than this....
 on the 5 December 1707.

In 2007, the Society celebrated its Tercentenary with an exhibition at the Royal Academy
Royal Academy

The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London, England. As an academy, it functions to encourage British art, and has a membership of practising artists....
 called Making History: Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007. A touring version of the exhibition will open on 4 October 2008 at the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum
Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum

Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, commonly known as Salisbury Museum houses one of the best collections relating to Stonehenge and local archaeology....
, Salisbury
Salisbury

Salisbury is a city status in the United Kingdom in Wiltshire, England. The city forms the largest part of the Salisbury . It has also been called New Sarum to distinguish it from the original site of settlement at Salisbury, Old Sarum, but this alternative name is not in common use....
, and close on 3 January 2009; move to the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
Stoke-on-Trent

Stoke-on-Trent is a City status in the United Kingdom in Staffordshire, England, which forms a linear conurbation almost 12 miles long, with an area of ....
, from 17 January 2009 to 21 June; then visit the Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens
Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens

Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens is a municipal museum in Sunderland, England. It is part of the Tyne and Wear Museums group, and is sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport....
 from 11 July to 4 October; and finally go on show at The Collection
The Collection

The Collection may refer to:*The Collection by Harold Pinter*The Collection *The Collection *The Collection *The Collection *The Collection ...
, in Lincoln
Lincoln, Lincolnshire

Lincoln is a cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England.The non-metropolitan district of Lincoln has a population of around 101,000 - the 2001 census gave the entire urban area of Lincoln a population of 120,779....
, from 16 October 2009 to 3 January 2010, after which it will tour North America.

Notable Fellows

  • Leslie Alcock
    Leslie Alcock

    Leslie Alcock was Professor of Archaeology at the University of Glasgow, and one of the leading archaeologists of Dark Age Britain. His major excavations included D?nas Powys in Wales, South Cadbury in Somerset and a series of major hillforts in Scotland....
     (1925 - 2006)
  • Mick Aston
    Mick Aston

    Michael Antony Aston is a British archaeologist. He is a passionate educator and populariser of archaeology, particularly through the Channel 4 television series Time Team....
     (1946 - )
  • Sir Wyke Bayliss
    Wyke Bayliss

    Sir Wyke Bayliss was a British Painting, author and poet. He almost exclusively painted interiors of British and European churches and cathedrals, and was known in the late Victorian era as an academic authority on art....
     (1835 - 1906)
  • John Thomas Blight
    John Thomas Blight

    John Thomas Blight Society of Antiquaries of London was an archaeological artist born near Redruth in Cornwall.He was born in Redruth. His father, Robert, a teacher, moved the family to Penzance and introduced his sons to the study of nature, antiquities and folk lore....
     (1835 - 1911)
  • E G Bowen
    Emrys G. Bowen

    Professor Emrys George Bowen Royal Geographical Society, Society of Antiquaries of London, Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts , Doctor of Laws, Open University, , was an internationally renowned Geographer with a particular interest in the physical geography and social geography of his native Wales....
     (1900 - 1983)
  • John Charles Brooke
    John Charles Brooke

    John Charles Brooke, Society of Antiquaries of London, was an English antiquarian and Somerset Herald at the time of his premature death in 1794....
    , Somerset Herald
    Somerset Herald

    Somerest Herald of Arms in Ordinary is an Officer of Arms at the College of Arms in London. In the year 1448 Somerset Herald is known to have served the Edmund Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, but by the time of the coronation of King Henry VII in 1485 his successor appears to have been raised to the rank of a royal officer, when he was the...
     (1748 - 1794)
  • William Copeland Borlase
    William Copeland Borlase

    William Copeland Borlase Master of Arts , Society of Antiquaries of London born at Castle Horneck, near Penzance in Cornwall, was a well known antiquarian and Member of Parliament for the St Austell of Cornwall....
     (1848 - 1899)
  • John Buckler
    John Buckler

    John Buckler was a United Kingdom artist and occasional architect who is best remembered for his many drawings of Church and other historic buildings, recording much that has since been altered or destroyed....
     (1770-1851)
  • Barry Cunliffe
    Barry Cunliffe

    Sir Barrington Windsor Cunliffe, Order of the British Empire, b. , known as Barry Cunliffe, was Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford from 1972 to 2007....
     (1939 - )
  • Beatrice de Cardi (1914 - )
  • Guy de la Bédoyère
    Guy de la Bédoyère

    Guy Martyn Thorold Huchet de la B?doy?re is a United Kingdom historian, who has published widely on Roman Britain and other subjects, and has appeared regularly on the Channel 4 archaeology television series, Time Team....
     (1957 - )
  • Neil Faulkner
    Neil Faulkner (archaeologist)

    Dr Neil Faulkner is an academic Archaeology who works mainly as Features Editor of the magazine Current Archaeology.Faulkner read Social and Political Science at King's College, Cambridge and later became a teacher before turning to archaeology....
     (1958 – )
  • John Frere
    John Frere

    John Frere was an England antiquary and a pioneering discoverer of Old Stone Age or Palaeolithic tools in association with large extinction animals at Hoxne, Suffolk in 1797....
     (1740 – 1807)
  • Helen Geake
    Helen Geake

    Dr Helen Geake is one of the key members of Channel 4's popular and long-running archaeology series Time Team, presented by Tony Robinson, along with Mick Aston and Phil Harding ....
     (1967 - )
  • Mark Girouard
    Mark Girouard

    Mark Girouard is a British architectural writer, an authority on the country house, leading architectural historian, and biographer of James Stirling ....
     (1931 - )
  • Loyd Grossman
    Loyd Grossman

    Loyd Daniel Gilman Grossman QC, Order of the British Empire, Society of Antiquaries of London OFM is an England-United States television presenter and chef who mainly works in the UK....
     (1950 - )
  • Merlin Hanbury-Tracy, 7th Baron Sudeley
    Merlin Hanbury-Tracy, 7th Baron Sudeley

    Merlin Charles Sainthill Hanbury-Tracy, 7th Baron Sudeley, Society of Antiquaries of London is a United Kingdom Peerage, author and veteran right-wing activist..In 1941, at the age of three, he succeeded his second cousin, the Richard Hanbury-Tracy, 6th Barony Sudeley, to the Baron Sudeley and until the House of Lords Act 1999 sat in that b...
     (1939 - )
  • Phil Harding
    Phil Harding (archaeologist)

    Phillip Harding is a British field archaeologist. He has become a familiar face on the Channel 4 television series Time Team, his trademarks being his long hair, long and dirty finger nails, battered sweat stained feathered hat and broad West Country accent....
  • Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon
    Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon

    Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon , was an England politician and a leading member of the Conservative Party . He was the brother of Auberon Herbert, father of Aubrey Herbert, and grandfather of both of the wives of novelist Evelyn Waugh....
     (1831 - 1890)
  • Mark Horton
    Mark Horton (archaeologist)

    Mark Chatwin Horton is a British maritime and historical archaeologist, television presenter and writer.He was born 15 February 1956 and is the youngest of four children, the eldest being the industrialist Sir Robert Horton....
     (1956 - )
  • William Hosking
    William Hosking

    William Hosking Society of Antiquaries of London was a writer, lecturer, and architect who had an important influence on the growth and development of London in Victorian times....
     (1800 - 1861)
  • Joseph Hunter
    Joseph Hunter (antiquarian)

    Joseph Hunter was a Unitarianism Minister and antiquarian best known for his publications Hallamshire. The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield in the County of York and the two-volume South Yorkshire , still considered among the best works written on the history of Sheffield and South Yorkshire....
     (1783 – 1861)
  • Henry Jenner
    Henry Jenner

    File:Henjenner.jpgHenry Jenner Society of Antiquaries of London was a Celtic languages scholar, Cornwall cultural activist, and the chief originator of the Cornish language revival....
      (1848 - 1934)
  • Carenza Lewis
    Carenza Lewis

    Carenza Rachel Lewis is a United Kingdom archaeology who became famous as a result of her appearances on the Channel 4 television series Time Team....
     (1964 - )
  • William Collings Lukis
    William Collings Lukis

    Rev. William Collings Lukis MA. Society of Antiquaries of London was a British antiquarian, archeologist and polymath.William Collings Lukis was the third son of Frederick Corbin Lukis,of the Colonel of Guernsey Militia....
  • Samuel Lysons
    Samuel Lysons

    Samuel Lysons Fellow of the Royal Society was a notable England engraver and antiquarian of the late 18th and early 19th century, who - with his older brother, Daniel Lysons - published the four-volume The Environs of London ....
     (1763 - 1819)
  • Philip Norman (1842 - 1931)
  • Edward Rowe Mores
    Edward Rowe Mores

    Edward Rowe Mores, Society of Antiquaries of London#Membership was an English people antiquarian and scholar, with works on history and typography....
     (1731 – 1778)
  • Stuart Piggott
    Stuart Piggott

    Stuart Ernest Piggott Order of the British Empire was a British archaeologist most well known for his work on prehistoric Wessex.Born in Petersfield, Hampshire, Piggott was educated at Churcher's College and on leaving school in 1927 took up a post as assistant at Reading Museum where he developed an expertise in Neolithic pottery....
     (1910 – 1996)
  • Giovanni Battista Piranesi
    Giovanni Battista Piranesi

    Giovanni Battista Piranesi was an Italian artist famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons" ....
     (1720 - 1778)
  • Augustus Pitt Rivers (1827 – 1900)
  • Francis Pryor
    Francis Pryor

    Francis Manning Marlborough Pryor Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom archaeology who is famous for his role in the discovery of Flag Fen, a Bronze Age archeological site near Peterborough, and for his frequent appearances on the Channel 4 television series Time Team....
  • Philip Rashleigh
    Philip Rashleigh

    Philip Rashleigh Fellow of the Royal Society , antiquary, eldest son of Jonathan Rashleigh, M.P. for Fowey in Cornwall , who married, on 11 June 1728, Mary, daughter of Sir William Clayton of Marden in Surrey, was born at Aldermanbury, London, 28 Dec....
  • Charles Reed (1819 - 1881)
  • Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn
    Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn

    Andrew Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn is an United Kingdom archaeologist, noted for his work on the radiocarbon revolution, the paleolinguistics, archaeogenetics, and the prevention of Illicit antiquities....
     (1937 - )
  • Julian Richards
    Julian Richards

    For the film director see Julian Richards Julian Richards FSA, MIFA is a British television and radio presenter, writer and archaeology with over 30 years experience of fieldwork and publication....
     (1951 - )
  • Edward Robert Robson
    Edward Robert Robson

    Edward Robert Robson Royal Institute of British Architects Society of Antiquaries of London Chartered Surveyors' Institution was a British architect famous for the progressive spirit of his London state-funded school buildings of the 1870s and early 1880s....
     (1836 – 1917)
  • John Christoper Sainty
    John Sainty

    Sir John Christopher Sainty, Order of the Bath, Society of Antiquaries of London was born in 1934, in London, England. He was a Her Majesty's Civil Service and then Clerk of the Parliaments from 1983 to 1990....
     (1932 - )
  • Edgar Ronald Seary (1908 - 1984)
  • John Shaw
    John Shaw Sr.

    John Shaw, Senior, was an architect related to the Shaw and Hardwick family and one of the first architects to draw up plans for semi-detached housing in London....
     (1776 - 1832)
  • Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet
    Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet

    Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet a Scotland politician, writer on finance and agriculture and the first person to use the word statistics in the English language, in his vast, pioneering work, Statistical Accounts of Scotland, in 21 volumes....
     (1754 – 1835)
  • Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer
    Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer

    Albert Edward John Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer , known formally as The Hon Albert Spencer until 1910 and from then until 1922 as Viscount Althorp, and less formally as "Jack" Spencer, was a British Peerage of Great Britain....
     (1892 - 1975)
  • David Starkey
    David Starkey

    David Robert Starkey, Order of the British Empire, Society of Antiquaries of London is an England historian, a television and radio presenter, and a specialist in the Tudor dynasty....
     (1945 - )
  • Thomas Stevens
    Thomas Stevens (bishop)

    Thomas Stevens, Doctor of Divinity, Society of Antiquaries of London was an Anglican bishop, the inaugural Bishop of Barking.Thomas Stevens was the son of Thomas Ogden Stevens of Sherborne....
     (1841 - 1920)
  • William Stukeley
    William Stukeley

    William Stukeley Royal Society, Royal College of Physicians, Society of Antiquaries of London was an England antiquary who pioneered the archaeology investigation of Stonehenge and Avebury and was one of the founders of field archaeology....
     (1687 – 1765)
  • Charles Thomas
    Charles Thomas (historian)

    Antony Charles Thomas, Order of the British Empire, Society of Antiquaries of London , Professor of Cornish Studies at Exeter University and first Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies from 1971 until his retirement in 1991....
     (1928 - )
  • George Vertue
    George Vertue

    File:George Vertue.pngGeorge Vertue was an England engraver and antiquary, whose notebooks on British art of the first half of the 18th century are a valuable source for the period....
     (1684 – 1756)
  • Sir Mortimer Wheeler
    Mortimer Wheeler

    Brigadier Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the Indian Empire, Military Cross, British Academy, Society of Antiquaries of London , was one of the best-known British archaeologists of the twentieth century....
     (1890 - 1976)
  • George Zarnecki
    George Zarnecki

    George Jerzy Zarnecki, Order of the British Empire, British Academy, Society of Antiquaries of London was a Professor of Art history. He was a scholar of Medieval art and a leading authority on England Romanesque art, an area of study where he did pioneering research....
     (1915 - 2008)


See also

  • Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
    Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

    The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland is the senior antiquarian body in Scotland, with its headquarters, collections, archive, and lecture theatre in the Royal Museum, Chambers Street, Edinburgh....


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