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Louis Clarke (antiquarian)

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Louis Clarke
1906 portrait by Philip de László
Born
Louis Colville Gray Clarke

(1881-05-02)2 May 1881
Croydon, England
Died13 December 1960(1960-12-13) (aged 79)
Cambridge, England
Alma mater
Employers

Louis Colville Gray Clarke FSA (1881–1960) was an antiquarian, archaeologist, collector and curator.[1][2]

He was curator of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge from 1922 to 1937 and then director of Fitzwilliam Museum from 1937 to 1946. He was a fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Louis Clarke, British Museum
  2. ^ A. M. Jaffé (23 September 2004). "Clarke, Louis Colville Gray". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32430. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ "Clarke, Louis Colville Gray", Who Was Who, A & C Black, 2007