| Authorised form of name | Franks; Sir; Augustus Wollaston (1826 - 1897) |
| Dates | 1826 - 1897 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Geneva, Switzerland |
| Date of birth | 20 March 1826 |
| Place of death | London |
| Date of death | 21 May 1897 |
| Dates and places | Burial:
Kensal Green cemetery, London |
| Activity | 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 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 04/06/1874 |
| Relationships | 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 |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1897 vol 61 pp x-xii signed by J E |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/14779956 |
| Royal Society code | NA6435 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1874/07 | Franks, Sir Augustus Wollaston: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/001548 | Franks, Sir Augustus Wollaston | nd |
| NLB/9/499 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 29 May 1894 |
| NLB/14/358 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 23 February 1897 |
| NLB/14/883 | Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 1 June 1897 |
| NLB/14/622 | Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society | 9 April 1897 |
| NLB/17/263 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 26 September 1898 |
| NLB/17/264 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Charles Hercules Read, British Museum, Bloomsbury, W.C. | 26 September 1898 |
| NLB/17/758 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 16 December 1898 |
| NLB/17/759 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Charles Hercules Read, British Museum, Bloomsbury, W.C. | 16 December 1898 |
| NLB/3/916 | List of corrections in the addresses of Royal Society Fellows | 8 November 1889 |
| MC/9/214 | Letter from A [Augustus] Wollaston Franks, 103 Victoria Street, to the Royal Society | 10 June 1871 |
| MC/9 | Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1870-June 1873 |
| MC/10/113 | Letter from Augustus W [Wollaston] Franks, Trustee and Keeper of the Christy Collection, Christy Collection, 103 Victoria Street, to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 1 June 1874 |
| MC/10 | Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | July 1873-1876 |
| MC/11/346 | Letter from Augustus W [Wollaston] Franks, 103 Victoria Street, to [George Gabriel] Stokes, [Secretary of the Royal Society] | 25 April 1879 |
| MC/11 | Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1877-1879 |