Warwick William Wroth

Warwick William Wroth (1858-1911), F.S.A., was the Senior Assistant Keeper of Coins and Medals in the British Museum.

Life

Wroth was the eldest son of the Rev. Warwick Reed Wroth, vicar of St. Philip's Clerkenwell. He was a man of varied accomplishments, and was one of the original contributors to the Dictionary of National Biography, with which he was associated almost until its completion.

His chief contributions to the literature of his department of the British Museum included a Catalogue of the Greek Coins, which appeared in 1903, and one of the Imperial Byzantine Coins, which appeared three years later. He was best known to the general public for his scholarly work on London Pleasure Gardens, published by Macmillan in 1896, in which he was helped by his brother, E. A. Wroth. Wroth had made this subject a speciality for many years, and had accumulated a considerable amount of curious and out-of-the-way material.

He died on 26 September 1911.^[1]

References

Attribution

• Adapted from subject's obituary in The Times

External links

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