Percy Gardner

Percy Gardner (24 November 184617 July 1937) was an English classical archaeologist and numismatist. He was Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge from 1879 to 1887. He was Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at the University of Oxford from 1887 to 1925.

Early life Gardner was born in Hackney, Middlesex, United Kingdom on 24 November 1846 to Thomas Gardner and Ann Pearse. He was educated at the City of London School to the age of fifteen when he joined his father's stockbroker business. Having been unsuccessful in the field, in 1865 he matriculated into Christ's College, Cambridge. He graduated with a first-class Bachelor of Arts (BA) in the classics and moral sciences tripos in 1869.

Academic career From 1871 to 1887, Gardner was an assistant in the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum. While there, he helped to write the first collections catalogues for Greek coins at the museum. He was succeeded by John Beazley. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the Archaeological Institute of America.

Personal life Gardner was married to Agnes Reid until their marriage broke down in 1874.

Selected works Stephani on the Tombs at Mycenae. The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1, 94–106 (1880) Statuette of Pallas from Cyprus. The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 2, 326-331 (1881) Types of Greek Coins (1883) The Coins of the Greek and Scythic Kings of Bactria and India in the British Museum (1886) A Numismatic Commentary on Pausanias (with Friedrich Imhoof-Blumer, 1887) New Chapters in Greek History: Historical Results of Recent Excavations in Greece and Asia Minor (1892) Manual of Greek Antiquities (1895) Sculptured Tombs of Hellas (1896) Exploratio Evangelica: A Brief Examination of the Basis and Origin of Christian Belief (1899) A Historic View of the New Testament (1901) Oxford at the Crossroads: A Criticism of the Course of Litterae Humaniores in the University (1903) A Grammar of Greek Art (1905) Growth of Christianity: London Lectures (1907) The Religious Experience of Saint Paul (1911) The Ephesian Gospel (1915) Evolution in Christian Ethics (1918)