Ormonde Maddock Dalton

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Name Ormonde Dalton		Died 1945

Books Fitzwilliam Museum, Antiquities from the City of Be, Apologia Diffidentis, Fitzwilliam Museum McClean, East Christian Art: A Sur

Ormonde Maddock Dalton (1866–1945) was a British museum curator and archaeologist.

From 1921 to 1928 he was Keeper of the British and Medieval Antiquities Department at the British Museum.

Works

Handbook to the Ethnographical Collections (1910) with Thomas Athol Joyce.

Byzantine Art and Archaeology (1911), handbook of art and artefacts.

Origin of Christian Church Art' (1923), translation with Hermann Justus Braunholtz from Josef Strzygowski.

East Christian Art (1925).

He also wrote under the pseudonym W. Compton Leith.

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