Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: Alexander Henry Rhind, a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, died in 1863, leaving his entire estate, valued at £7,000, to the creation of a lectureship to be administered by the Society.Rhind had been a leading figure in the movement to reform Treasure Trove laws in order to promote government protection of antiquities.Having embraced the "three-age system" advanced by Scandinavian antiquaries and ethnologists, Rhind hoped that legal protection of antiquities would aid in the building of national collections in Edinburgh, Dublin, and London, allowing British and Irish archaeologists to flesh out the three ages of their domestic prehistory.Though he died at the age of 30, Rhind did much to reach these goals in his short life, but more significantly, in the legacy of his bequest.Under the terms of his will, each holder of the lectureship "shall be bound to deliver annually a course of not less than six lectures on some branch of archaeology, ethnology, ethnography, or allied topic" Soc.Antig.Scot.14 Dec. 1874).Among the most notable of the early holders of the lectureship (which continues to this day) were J.
Authors: Michael Morse, Arthur Mitchell
Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2346867285