BRITISH MUSEUM DIRECTOR

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 370, 13 September 1930, Page 14 (Supplement)

BRITISH MUSEUM DIRECTOR

RETIRING ASTER 21 YEARS. At the end of the year Sir Frederic Kenyon, who has completed 21 yean a.; director and principal librarian ol 1 tho British Musr m, will retire. Ai I authority on ancient and modern liters ture, Sir Frederic has been honourci’ by many universities, and some yean ago Ohio founded Kenyon College aftet him. He holds more than 20 degree®

and academic distinctions. Sir Frederic had only just entered the services of the Museum when the institution acquired a valuable collection of Greek papyri, and it fell tn him to edit them. He has also edited editions of the classics which hav® become handbooks in tho schools and, universities, and has written on th® Bible and military subjects. Grea administrative abilities wer< revealed by Sir Frederic and thf work that they extended hii period of office for three years after he had reached the age limit of 65. It was for his services at the Museum that he was knighted in 1912.