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

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

William Salusbury, an eminent antiquary, was a native of Denbighshire, where he was born in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. 

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

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

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

For centuries "stained drawings" had been the approved means for antiquaries, topographers and military men to map the lie of the land.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 5, 2011

At one period antiquaries of repute placed a Roman "camp" here, calling some of the earthworks Roman.

From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by Vincent, J. E. (James Edmund)