Ormonde Maddock Dalton

Ormonde Maddock Dalton (1866–1945) was a British museum curator and archaeologist.^[1]

From 1921 to 1928 he was Keeper of the British and Medieval Antiquities Department at the British Museum.^[2]

Works

• Handbook to the Ethnographical Collections (1910) with Thomas Athol Joyce.^[3]
• Byzantine Art and Archaeology (1911), handbook of art and artefacts.^[4]
• Origin of Christian Church Art' (1923), translation with Hermann Justus Braunholtz from Josef Strzygowski.^[1]
• East Christian Art (1925).^[1]

He also wrote under the pseudonym W. Compton Leith.^[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 22 June 2015.
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.