Person Franks; Sir; Augustus Wollaston (1826 - 1897) Franks Augustus Wollaston Sir 1826 - 1897 British Male Geneva, Switzerland 20 March 1826 London 21 May 1897 Burial: Kensal Green cemetery, London

103 Victoria Street, Westminster (1873)

Education: Eton; Trinity College, Cambridge. BA (1849), MA (1852) Career: Assistant, Department of Antiquities, British Museum (1851); Keeper, Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities, and of the Ethnographical Collections, British Museum; Trustee and Keeper of the Christy Collection; Director, Society of Antiquaries of London; gave his collection of eastern ceramics to the British Museum Honours: KCB 1894 Memberships: FGS; FRAS Elder son of Captain Frederick Franks RN and his wife Fredica Anne, daugher of Sir John Sebright; godson of William Hyde Wollaston (FRS 1793), after whom he was named Wollaston; unmarried Fellow 04/06/1874 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc 1897 vol 61 pp x-xii signed by J E International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 20 Mar 1826 - 21 May 1897 NA6435 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/14779956 60004abe-3fea-456a-adf4-cf5ac49a148f