Ernest Arthur Gardner

Ernest Arthur Gardner ( born March 16, 1862 in Clapton, London, † November 27, 1939 in Maidenhead, Berkshire ) was a British archaeologist Classic.

Gardner, son of a stockbroker, attended the City of London School and studied from 1880 to 1884 Classical Studies at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He was also from 1885 to 1894 Fellow. 1885-86 he took part in the excavations of the Egypt Exploration Society in Naukratis with Flinders Petrie. Since 1886, he was at the British School at Athens, whose director he was from 1887 to 1895. He first led excavations in Old Paphos and Salamis in Cyprus by, later in Megalopolis.

From 1896 to 1929 he was Yates Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at University College, London University. Among his pupils was Mortimer Wheeler.

During the First World War, he served from 1915 to 1919 as an intelligence officer, first in Greece and later in London.

His older brother Percy Gardner (1846-1937) was also Classical archaeologist.