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

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

Among the many strange sights that evening were parliamentary records being flung from windows, while the antiquary Thomas Phillipps ran about picking them up from the cobbles.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2012

Thomas Pennant, the celebrated antiquary and naturalist, was born at Bychton, in Flintshire, in the year 1726. 

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

The gentry on whose lands it stood – some of whom were important antiquaries, collecting and preserving the inscribed stones that were found along it – were beginning to make serious money from coal and steel.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2013

A plank-built boat was discovered a few years since in Denmark, which the antiquaries assign to the fifth century.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Frederick Whymper