About
English scholar, author, and longtime secretary of the London Society of Antiquaries.
Before Fame
He worked as a shoemaker's apprentice before studying at Lincoln College, Oxford.
Trivia
He authored the famous 1777 work Popular Antiquities.
Family Life
He was born into a family in northeast England's County Durham.
Associated With
Archaeologist Howard Carter, who worked in the Egyptian pyramids, also made a career out of antiquities.
