Warwick William Wroth

Warwick William Wroth FSA (24 August 1858 – 26 September 1911) was a numismatist and biographer. He was Senior Assistant Keeper of Coins and Medals in the British Museum and one of the original contributors to the Dictionary of National Biography, with which he was associated almost until its completion.

Life

Wroth was born in Clerkenwell, the eldest son of the Rev. Warwick Reed Wroth, vicar of St. Philip's Clerkenwell. He attended the King's School, Canterbury, where he received a classical training, and joined the staff of the British Museum as an assistant in the Department of Coins and Medals in July 1878.[1]

Publications

Wroth contributed to the series of British Museum Catalogues of Greek Coins, and wrote articles for the Journal of Hellenic Studies, the Numismatic Chronicle, The Athenaeum, and The Classical Review. He also wrote a series of biographies of numismatists, medallists, coin-engravers which were published in the Dictionary of National Biography. The following list is a selection of his publications:

  • Volumes in the series British Museum Catalogue of Greek Coins:
    • Crete and the Aegean Islands (1886)
    • Pontus, Paphlygonia, etc (1889)
    • Mysia (1892)
    • Troas, Aeolia, and Lesbos (1894)
    • Galatia, Cappadocia, and Syria (1899)
    • Parthia (1903)
  • Volumes in the series British Museum Catalogue of Roman Coins:
    • Imperial Byzantine Coins (1908)
    • Coins of the Vandals, Ostrogoths, and Lombards, etc (1911)
  • The London Pleasure Gardens of the Eighteenth Century (1896) (with his brother, E.A. Wroth)
  • Cremorne and the Later London Pleasure Gardens (1907)

See also the bibliography of Wroth's work, by John Allan.[2]

Wroth was best known to the general public for his scholarly work on London Pleasure Gardens, published by Macmillan in 1896, in which he was helped by his brother, E. A. Wroth. Wroth had made this subject a speciality for many years, and had accumulated a considerable amount of curious and out-of-the-way material.[3]

gollark: I mean, yes, if you already trust everyone to act sensibly and without doing bad stuff, then privacy doesn't matter for those reasons.
gollark: Oh, and as an extension to the third thing, if you already have some sort of vast surveillance apparatus, even if you trust the government of *now*, a worse government could come along and use it later for... totalitarian things.
gollark: For example:- the average person probably does *some* sort of illegal/shameful/bad/whatever stuff, and if some organization has information on that it can use it against people it wants to discredit (basically, information leads to power, so information asymmetry leads to power asymmetry). This can happen if you decide to be an activist or something much later, even- having lots of data on you means you can be manipulated more easily (see, partly, targeted advertising, except that actually seems to mostly be poorly targeted)- having a government be more effective at detecting minor crimes (which reduced privacy could allow for) might *not* actually be a good thing, as some crimes (drug use, I guess?) are kind of stupid and at least somewhat tolerable because they *can't* be entirely enforced practically
gollark: No, it probably isn't your fault, it must have been dropped from my brain stack while I was writing the rest.
gollark: ... I forgot one of them, hold on while I try and reremember it.

References
  1. "Obituary and Bibliography of Warwick William Wroth" by G.F. Hill and John Allan, in Numismatic Chronicle (1912), 107-110
  2. John Allan's "Bibliography of Warwick Wroth", in Numismatic Chronicle (1912) 109-110.
  3. "Obituary. Mr. Warwick Wroth". The Times. 28 September 1911. pp. Issue 39702, pg. 9, col F. Retrieved 12 November 2010.
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