Percy Gardner

Percy Gardner (* November 24, 1846 in Hackney, London, † July 17, 1937 in Oxford ) was a British archaeologist and numismatist Classic.

Gardner, son of a stockbroker, attended the City of London School and entered first into the company of his father. From 1865 to 1869 he studied Classical Studies at Christ 's College, Cambridge University. He began his career as a numismatist and was from 1871 to 1887 as an Assistant Keeper worked at the coin collection of the British Museum in London, where he among other things, six volumes of the Catalogue of the Greek coins wrote. From 1880 to 1887, he was Professor of Archaeology parallel to Disney at the University of Cambridge. From 1887 to 1925 he taught as Professor of Classical Archaeology Lincoln and Art at Oxford University.

Gardner worked alongside of numismatics, especially in the field of Greek art history. He was largely responsible for the development of the University of Oxford to become a leading center of archaeological science, one of his students, among others John D. Beazley and Bernard Ashmole.

His younger brother Ernest Arthur Gardner (1862-1939) was also a classical archaeologist.