Sir William Ridgeway (6 August 1858 – 12 August 1926) was a classical scholar and the Disney Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge University.
Ridgeway was educated at Portarlington School and Trinity College, Dublin, after which he studied at Peterhouse, Cambridge then Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, completing the Classical tripos there in 1880.[1]
In 1883 Ridgeway was elected Professor of Greek at University College, Cork, then Disney Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge in 1892.
He contributed articles to the Encyclopaedia Biblica, 1903.
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| Preceded by George Brown |
Disney Professor of Archaeology, Cambridge University 1892 - 1926 |
Succeeded by Sir Ellis Minns |