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Warwick William Wroth
1858–1911
A careful scholar of coins, medals, and history, he helped shape the study of numismatics at the British Museum while also writing for the Dictionary of National Biography. His work blends exact research with a lively interest in the people and objects behind the past.
2 Audiobooks
The London pleasure gardens of the eighteenth century
by Warwick William Wroth, Arthur Edgar Wroth
Cremorne and the later London gardens
by Warwick William Wroth
About the author
Born in London on 24 August 1858, Warwick William Wroth became a respected English numismatist and biographer. He spent much of his career at the British Museum, where he rose to become Senior Assistant Keeper in the Department of Coins and Medals, and he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
Alongside his museum work, he was one of the original contributors to the Dictionary of National Biography and remained involved with it for many years. He was especially known for his expertise in Greek and Byzantine coinage, producing important catalogues and studies that made difficult material more accessible to other scholars.
Wroth died on 26 September 1911, at just 53 years old. Though not widely known outside specialist circles today, he left behind a strong reputation as a patient, exacting researcher whose writing helped preserve both the history of coins and the lives of the people connected with them.