Read, Sir (Charles) Hercules, (6 July 1857–11 Feb. 1929), Past President Royal Anthropological Institute, and President Society of Antiquaries of London, 1908–14, and 1919–24; President, Section H British Association, 1899; formerly Keeper of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography, British Museum, until 1921; Hon. Member, Real Acad., San Fernando, and Real Acad. de la Historia, Madrid; Member, Royal Society Northern

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"Read, Sir (Charles) Hercules, (6 July 1857–11 Feb. 1929), Past President Royal Anthropological Institute, and President Society of Antiquaries of London, 1908–14, and 1919–24; President, Section H British Association, 1899; formerly Keeper of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography, British Museum, until 1921; Hon. Member, Real Acad., San Fernando, and Real Acad. de la Historia, Madrid; Member, Royal Society Northern Antiquaries, Copenhagen; Academie Royale d’Archéologie de Belgique, Antiquarian and Numismatic Society of Philadelphia, Società di Antropologia d’ Italia. Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, Sussex Archæological Society; Member, Society of Gentlemen of Spalding; a Trustee of Sir John Soane’s Museum; Member of the Society of Dilettanti" published on by Oxford University Press.