antiquary

James, the English antiquary and ghost-story writer, to whose work I am devoted.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2021

Yet Irwin is hardly a dry-as-dust antiquary, and “Wonders Will Never Cease” frequently reveals the wide range of his reading: His description of the world’s end was obviously adapted from H.G.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 27, 2017

In the 1890s, antiquary John Buchanan saw "an entire mass of broken stones mingled with fragments of pottery" exposed when the railway line was cut through Castlecary fort.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2013

Hingley writes of the 19th-century Newcastle antiquary John Clayton, who bought as much as he could of the land through which Hadrian's wall ran, and rebuilt tracts of it.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2013

William Maurice of Cevyn-y-Briach, in Denbighshire, a distinguished antiquary and the assistant of Mr. Robert Vaughan, of Hengwrt, in collecting old Welsh manuscripts. 

From A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation by Robert Williams

With knowledge under siege, antiquaries of that time were the last defense against the destruction of books.

From Slate ● Dec. 8, 2020

Wilson structures “A Magical World” as essentially a series of lightly sketched biographies of the era’s most prominent theologians, philosophers, physicians, cosmographers and antiquaries.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2018

Architects and antiquaries had been arguing over these matters since early Victorian times.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 20, 2013

But Newcastle's antiquaries retain a youthful curiosity and zest.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 22, 2013

In our own days, those who deal with armory as antiquaries and students of the past will observe the old custom for convenience’ sake.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various