British archæologist, born in Ireland on the 6th of August 1853 and educated at Portarlington, Trinity College, Dublin, and at Caius College, Cambridge, where he was fifth in the classical tripos. In 1880 he was elected fellow of Caius College, Cambridge, and in 1883 became professor of Greek at Queen’s College, Cork. In 1892 he returned to Cambridge as professor of archæology and in 1907 became also Brereton reader in classics. He was made a fellow of the British Academy, and president of the Royal Anthropological Institute (1908–09). He was knighted in 1919. Amongst his publications are The Origin of Metallic Currency and Weight Standards (1892); The Early Age of Greece (1901); The Origin and Influence of the Thoroughbred Horse (1907); Who were the Romans? (1907); The Oldest Irish Epic (1907), etc.
