Full Name: Harcourt-Smith, Cecil, Sir
Other Names:
- Sir Cecil Harcourt-Smith
Gender: male
Date Born: 1859
Date Died: 1944
Place Born: Staines, Surrey, England, UK
Place Died: Stoatley Bramley, Surrey, England, UK
Home Country/ies: United Kingdom
Subject Area(s): archaeology
Overview
Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, archaeologist. Early on he encouraged the son of a family friend, Trenchard Cox, then a Cambridge student, to seriously consider art museum work (Cox later became a director of the V&A). He retired in 1924 and was succeeded by Eric Maclagan.
Sources
The Makers of Classical Archaeology: A Reference Work. New York: Humanity Books, 2000 pp. 141-42.