Full Name: Franks, Wollaston, Sir
Other Names:
- Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks
Gender: male
Date Born: 1826
Date Died: 1897
Place Born: Genève, Switzerland
Place Died: London, Greater London, England, UK
Home Country/ies: United Kingdom
Subject Area(s): archaeology, Medieval (European), and numismatics
Career(s): curators
Overview
Numismatist; archaeologist; Keeper of the department of British and Medieval Antiquities and ethnography, British Museum; assembled major collections for the British Museum, responsible for diversify British Museum Collections to non-West (Japanese) porcellains and other areas. He hired the medievalist and later keeper of the department, Ormonde M. Dalton in 1885.
Sources
A. W. Franks: Nineteenth-century Collecting and the British Museum. Marjorie Caygill and John Cherry, eds. London: British Museum Press, 1997. DNB vol. 22 (supplement) 665-668.