Editing Percy Gardner

{{Short description|British archaeologist (1846–1937)}}
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* [[Christ's College, Cambridge]]
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* [[Lincoln College, Oxford]]
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'''Percy Gardner''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FSA|FBA|size=100%|sep=,}} (24 November 1846{{snd}}17 July 1937) was an English classical [[archaeologist]] and [[numismatist]]. He was [[Disney Professor of Archaeology]] at the [[University of Cambridge]] from 1879 to 1887. He was [[Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art]] at the [[University of Oxford]] from 1887 to 1925.

==Early life==
Gardner was born in [[Hackney (parish)|Hackney]], [[Middlesex]], [[United Kingdom]] on 24 November 1846 to Thomas Gardner and Ann Pearse.<ref name="Dic AH">{{cite web|title=Gardner, Percy|url=http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/gardnerp.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061003053115/http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/gardnerp.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 October 2006|publisher=Dictionary of Art Historians|access-date=24 June 2012}}</ref> He was educated at the [[City of London School]] to the age of fifteen when he joined his father's [[stockbroker]] business. Having been unsuccessful in the field, in 1865 he [[matriculation|matriculated]] into [[Christ's College, Cambridge]]. He graduated with a [[First Class Honours|first-class]] [[Bachelor of Arts]] (BA) in the [[Classical Tripos|classics]] and moral sciences tripos in 1869.<ref name="Dic AH" /> In 1870, he received the one year, University of Cambridge Whewell Scholarship in international law.<ref name=ODNB>{{cite ODNB|title=Gardner, Percy (1846–1937)|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33328|access-date=24 June 2012|author=J. M. C. Toynbee and H. D. A. Major|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/33328 }}</ref>

==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" />

==Awards==
Gardner was elected a [[Fellow of the British Academy]] (FBA) in 1903.<ref>{{cite web|title=Record for: GARDNER, Professor|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/directory/dec.cfm?member=3521|work=British Academy Fellows Archive|publisher=The British Academy|access-date=24 June 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303224711/http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/directory/dec.cfm?member=3521|archive-date=3 March 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref> He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the [[Archaeological Institute of America]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=Foreign Honorary Members, Archaeological Institute of American|journal=American Journal of Archaeology|year=1903|volume=7|pages=50–162|jstor=497071}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Gardner was married to Agnes Reid until their marriage broke down in 1874.<ref name="Dic AH" /> His sister [[Alice Gardner]] was a historian and her brother, [[Ernest Arthur Gardner]], was also an archaeologist.<ref>
Gillian Sutherland, 'Gardner, Alice (1854–1927)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/48491, accessed 21 Feb 2017]</ref>

==Selected works==
*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/623616 Stephani on the Tombs at Mycenae]. ''The Journal of Hellenic Studies'', 1,&nbsp;94–106 (1880)
*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/623574 Statuette of Pallas from Cyprus]. ''The Journal of Hellenic Studies'', 2, 326-331 (1881) 
*[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001596893 ''Types of Greek Coins''] (1883)<ref>{{cite journal|author=Oman, C. W. C.|author-link=Charles Oman|title=Review of ''Types of Greek Coins'' by Percy Gardner|journal=The Academy|date=26 May 1883|volume=23|issue=577|pages=371–372|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c2650235;view=1up;seq=385}}</ref>
*''The Coins of the Greek and Scythic Kings of Bactria and India in the British Museum'' (1886)
*''[https://archive.org/details/numismaticcommen00imhoiala A Numismatic Commentary on Pausanias]'' (with Friedrich Imhoof-Blumer, 1887)
*''[https://archive.org/details/newchaptersingre00gardrich New Chapters in Greek History: Historical Results of Recent Excavations in Greece and Asia Minor]'' (1892)<ref>{{cite journal|title=Review of ''New Chapters in Greek History: Historical Results of Recent Excavations in Greece and Asia Minor'' by Percy Gardner|journal=The Athenaeum|issue= 3387|date=24 September 1892|pages=410–411|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GN5BAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA410}}</ref>
*''[https://archive.org/details/manualofgreekan00gard Manual of Greek Antiquities]'' (1895)
*''[https://archive.org/details/sculpturedtombso00garduoft Sculptured Tombs of Hellas]'' (1896)
*''[https://archive.org/details/exploratioevan00gard Exploratio Evangelica: A Brief Examination of the Basis and Origin of Christian Belief]'' (1899)
*''A Historic View of the New Testament'' (1901)
* [https://books.google.com/books/about/Oxford_at_the_Crossroads.html?id=7MdHAAAAIAAJ ''Oxford at the Crossroads: A Criticism of the Course of Litterae Humaniores in the University''] (1903)<ref>{{cite journal|title=Review of ''Oxford at the Crossroads: A Criticism of the Course of Litterae Humaniores in the University'' by Percy Gardner|journal=The Athenaeum|issue=3942|date=May 16, 1903|pages=616–617|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oKA5AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA616}}</ref>
*''[https://archive.org/details/grammarofgreekar00garduoft A Grammar of Greek Art]'' (1905)
*''[https://archive.org/details/growthofchristia00garduoft Growth of Christianity: London Lectures]'' (1907)
*''[https://archive.org/details/cu31924029331620 The Religious Experience of Saint Paul]'' (1911)
*''[https://archive.org/details/ephesiangospel00gard The Ephesian Gospel]'' (1915)
*''[https://archive.org/details/evolutioninchris00gardrich Evolution in Christian Ethics]'' (1918)
* {{cite book |title= A History of Ancient Coinage 700-300 B.C.  |place= Oxford|publisher= Clarendon Press |year= 1918 |url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofancient00garduoft#page/n7/mode/2up }}

==References==
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==External links==
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* [https://books.google.com/books?id=0M7iFXkaPYIC&pg=PA368 "Homer and Recent Archæology"], Percy Gardner in ''Macmillan's Magazine'', Vol. LIV, May to Oct. 1886, pages 368-379
* [http://sites.google.com/site/digitallibrarynumis/03-index/g/gardner-percy-1846-1937 Digital Library Numis (DLN)] Gardner online books and articles

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