J.R. Ogden Yorkshire press cuttings
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: J.R. Ogden Yorkshire press cuttings
Classmark: MS 1948
Related People: James R. Ogden(Collector)
Date(s): 1889-1932
Size and medium: 2 boxes; 1 volume
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/168189
Description
Mainly news clippings and photographs pasted on to board or card about Yorkshire personalities and subjects, particularly York. Also includes two pamphlets 'A trip through Yorkshire' 1889 and, 'York and its Minster' 1927.
Biography or history
Mr James Roberts Ogden J.P., F.S.A. (1866-1940) was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and member of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society. He was a jeweller and goldsmith from Harrogate, Yorkshire. He had an interest in archaeology, and was closely associated with the Palestine and Egyptian Exploration Funds. He made several visits to excavations in the Egypt, Iraq, Syria and Palestine; their link with biblical narratives being one of his main interests.
Ogden fundraised to support work on archaeological sites through lectures he gave on the subject. He became a metallurgical expert for antiquity, and worked closely with The British Museum Research Lab as an advisory goldsmith. He was also commissioned to make replicas of objects from the Ur collection in the Baghdad Museum for the British Museum.
It was largely as a result of his fundraising that digging was commenced in 1933 on the pre-historic site of Ninever. In appreciation of his work, Mr Ogden was the recipient of a special letter from the Trustees of the British Museum. Ogden was also a generous donor to the Harrogate Museum and other institutions.
He was an associate of Sir Charles Leonard Woolley, an archaeologist who excavated at Ur.
He was one of the prime movers along with Herbert Chapman in the formation of the Harrogate Group of the YAS in 1936, of which, until shortly before his death, he was President. He was also instrumental in the erection of the memorial on Marston Moor.
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