Editing Percy Gardner (section)

==Academic career==
From 1871 to 1887, Gardner was an assistant in the Department of Coins and Medals at the [[British Museum]]. While there, he helped to write the first collections catalogues for Greek coins at the museum.<ref name="Dic AH" /> He was elected a [[Fellow (Oxbridge)|Fellow]] of [[Christ's College, Cambridge]] in 1872.<ref name=ODNB />  He held the first editorship of [[The Journal of Hellenic Studies]] from 1879 to 1895.<ref name="Dic AH" /> He was [[Disney Professorship of Archaeology|Disney Professor of Archaeology]] at the [[University of Cambridge]] from 1879 to 1886.<ref name="Dic AH" /> He then moved to the [[University of Oxford]] and held the [[Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art|Lincoln and Merton Professorship of Classical Archaeology]] from 1887 to 1925.<ref name="Dic AH" /> During his time at the university, he had a stimulating influence on the study of ancient, and particularly Greek, art.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Gardner, Percy|volume=11|page=462}}</ref> He was succeeded by [[John Beazley]].<ref name="Dic AH" /> In his later years, he also became prominent as an historical critic on Biblical subjects.<ref name="EB1911"/>

Gardner died on 17 July 1937 in [[Oxford]], England.<ref name="Dic AH" />