Charles Thomas Newton

Sir Charles Thomas Newton (1816-1894) is a British and preserving archeologist with the British Museum.

It made its studies with Shrewsbury then with Christ Church, Oxford.
It entered to British Museum in 1840.
It was sent in Greece by the museum. It left in 1852.
It was officially sent to Mytilène by Foreign Office as Vice-Consul, but its instructions required of him to benefit from it to collect antiquities for British Museum. The financing was joint: British Museum and British government which also placed at its disposal of the ships and the assistance of various professionals. Its stay lasted seven ans.
He worked on Lesbos, in Rhodos and on the continent. While going from Great Britain to Lesbos, it stopped in continental Greece and identified the site of Amphiaraos there. He travelled much out of Lesbos. In 1854, it was with Athens, where it discovered excel it work of the French École and had the idea to create a similar institution for Large-Bretagne.
Its first great excavation was that of the hippodrome of Constantinople where celebrates it column with the three snakes discovered, bases tripod of Platées.
It was determining in the knowledge of the Mausolée of Halicarnasse (identification of the site initially, then excavations on the spot, finally it gathered with the British Museum all that it had discovered and all that was known by it and present elsewhere: with Geneva, Constantinople or Rhodos). He saw himself allocating £2.000 by British Museum for work. The government lent a warship to him for 6 months, an officer engineer and four sapeurs.
It used photography to make the statement of the plan of the town of Cnide in 1858-1859.
It recovered ceramics rhodienne discovered by Salzmann and Biliotti for British Museum in 1859.
It was then named consul with Rome.
In 1861, it was named preserving Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities in British Museum. He resigned in 1888.
In 1880, it became off Professor Archeology in University College of London.

The publications concerning its voyage were of two types: scientists, purely archaeological, but also more general public and being interested in the local population, its customs and habits, and the political situation and social of the traversed areas. Thus, its work on the inscriptions was recognized by the whole of the scientific community, used for example by Theodore Solomon Reinach for his work on the épigraphie.
Publications:

has off History Discoveries At Halicarnassus, Cnidus and Branchidae. , London, 1862.
Travels and Raising Discoveries in the. , London, 1865.
Essays one Art and Archeology. , London, 1880.

He was knight about Bath. Member of Royal Society. Corresponding member of the institute, honorary member of the Central management of the German imperial Institute of archeology.

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