Talfourd Ely

Talfourd Ely FSA (1838–1923) was a British archaeologist, classicist, and author of several books, notably A Manual of Archaeology and Roman Hayling.

Career Talfourd Ely contributed many articles on archaeology to learned journals and taught Latin and other classical languages at University College London. During the greater part of his life he was closely connected with University School and College, London. He was vice-principal and classical tutor at University Hall, classical master at University College School, and secretary of the College. This last post he resigned in order to study archaeology at Berlin, where he worked with Ernst Curtius, Kirchhoff, Robert, Furtwängler, and Wattenbach, and became acquainted with other leading scholars. He travelled largely in Europe, and had an exciting adventure at Olympia with brigands whom he routed. In his later years he was connected with many learned societies—the Antiquaries, Hellenic, Royal Archaeological, and others.

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as translator: (See Hayling Island.)