Mortimer Wheeler
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Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler CH CIE MC TD was a British archaeologist and officer in the British Army. Over the course of his career, he served as Director of both the National Museum of Wales and London Museum, Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India, and the founder and Honorary Director of the Institute of Archaeology in London, in addition to writing twenty-four books on archaeological subjects.
Mortimer Wheeler in 1956
During childhood, Wheeler took an interest in the prehistoric carvings of Ilkley Moor.
Wheeler undertook his BA and MA at University College London (pictured).
Lancaster House, where the London Museum was based
Society of Antiquaries of London
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The Society of Antiquaries of London (SAL) is a learned society of historians and archaeologists in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1701, received its royal charter in 1751 and is a
registered charity. It is based at Burlington House in Piccadilly, a building owned by the UK government.
Entrance from Burlington House courtyard
The Society of Antiquaries of London at the University of London History Day, 2016
One of the rooms in the west wing used by the Society of Antiquaries
Vertue, 'The Gate at Whitehall' (Holbein Gate) in Vetusta Monumenta Vol.1, 1747 (1826)