Burgon, Thomas, 1767-1837, merchant, antiquities collector and numismatist

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Burgon, Thomas, 1767-1837, merchant, antiquities collector and numismatist

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1767-1837

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Born in London 1787; merchant based in Smyrna, Turkey; member of the court of assistants for the Levant Company; married Catherine Marguerite de Cramer, daughter of the Austrian consul at Smyrna; returned to London, 1814; merchant and trading business failed, 1841; declared bankrupt, 1842; forced to sell collection of Greek antiquities to the British Museum to pay part of his debts, 1842; employed in Coin Room, Antiquities Department, British Museum; died, 1857.

Publications: An inquiry into the motive which influenced the ancients in their choice of the various representations which we find stamped on their money (London: J Wertheimer, 1836); ‘On a mode of ascertaining the places to which ancient British coins belong,’ Numismatic Chronicle v.1, Royal Numismatic Society, 1838; Prefatory Remarks, and Index, to the first and second portions of the Greek, Roman, and mediæval Coins and Medals [in the collection of T Thomas], 1844; ‘On two newly discovered silver tetradrachms of Amyntas, King of Galatia: with some remarks on the diminution in weight of the Attic drachma,’ The Numismatic Chronicle, and Journal of the Numismatic Society, v. 8, 1845-1846; ‘An attempt to point out the vases of Greece proper which belong to the heroic and Homeric ages,’ Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, 1847

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