O. M. Dalton

Ormonde Maddock Dalton, FBA (1866–1945) was a British museum curator and archaeologist.^[1] Though very much an all-rounder, his main expertise was in medieval art. He usually published as O. M. Dalton, but also wrote under the pseudonym W. Compton Leith.^[1]

From 1921 to 1928 he was Keeper of the British and Medieval Antiquities Department at the British Museum.^[2] As well as the books below, he wrote a stream of articles and short books for the museum.

Works

• Handbook to the Ethnographical Collections (1910) with Thomas Athol Joyce.^[3]
• Byzantine Art and Archaeology (1911), handbook of art and artefacts.^[4]
• East Christian Art (1925).^[1]

Translations

• Gregory of Tours. The History of the Franks. 2 vol. trans. O. M. Dalton. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967
• Josef Strzygowski, Origin of Christian Church Art' (1923), translation with Hermann Justus Braunholtz.^[1]

Notes

1. Pottle, Mark. "Dalton, Ormonde Maddock". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32698. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
2. "Ormonde M Dalton". Dictionary of Art Historians. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
3. Howgego, Raymond John. "Joyce, Thomas Athol". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/74201. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
4. Elizabeth Jeffreys; John F. Haldon; Robin Cormack (2008). The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies. Oxford University Press. p. 57. ISBN 978-0-19-925246-6.

External links

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