ARCHAEOLOGIST

Mortimer Wheeler

1890 - 1976

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Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler CH CIE MC TD (10 September 1890 – 22 July 1976) was a British archaeologist and officer in the British Army. Over the course of his career, he served as Director of both the National Museum of Wales and London Museum, Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India, and the founder and Honorary Director of the Institute of Archaeology in London, in addition to writing twenty-four books on archaeological subjects. Born in Glasgow to a middle-class family, Wheeler was raised largely in Yorkshire before moving to London in his teenage years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mortimer Wheeler has received more than 557,500 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Mortimer Wheeler is the 111th most popular archaeologist (up from 119th in 2019), the 3,845th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,297th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular British Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Mortimer Wheeler ranks 111 out of 151. Before him are Hugo Winckler, Colin Groves, Leon Kozłowski, Rudolf Wagner, Lewis Binford, and Anne Stine Ingstad. After him are Spyridon Marinatos, Franz Weidenreich, Meave Leakey, Ekrem Akurgal, Robert T. Bakker, and Zakaria Goneim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Mortimer Wheeler ranks 195. Before him are Herbert Marshall, Robert Armstrong, Luís de Freitas Branco, Paul Scherrer, Rainer von Fieandt, and Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen. After him are Stanley Holloway, Edgar Kennedy, Verna Felton, Aimee Semple McPherson, Eino Kaila, and Cecil Kellaway. Among people deceased in 1976, Mortimer Wheeler ranks 200. Before him are Zofia Stryjeńska, Paul Kossoff, Mario Alborta, Alexander Brailowsky, Mal Evans, and Humberto Elgueta. After him are Zoltán Latinovits, Johnny Mercer, María Corda, George Parker, Anton Grasser, and Miriam Cooper.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mortimer Wheeler ranks 3,845 out of 8,785. Before him are Eric Gill (1882), Ivor Bueb (1923), Lance Macklin (1919), Beth Gibbons (1965), Elizabeth Goudge (1900), and Eric A. Havelock (1903). After him are Frederick Sandys (1829), George Graham (1944), Jim Kerr (1959), George Hadley (1685), Georges Passerieu (1885), and Paul Anderson (1978).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, Mortimer Wheeler ranks 22. Before him are John Marshall (1876), John O. Westwood (1805), James Mellaart (1925), E. A. Wallis Budge (1857), James Prinsep (1799), and Colin Groves (1942). After him are Meave Leakey (1942), John Beazley (1885), Dorothea Bate (1878), James Quibell (1867), Arthur Surridge Hunt (1871), and John M. Allegro (1923).

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