O. M. Dalton
British museum curator and archaeologist
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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, 1927
- Josef Strzygowski, Origin of Christian Church Art' (1923), translation with Hermann Justus Braunholtz.[1]
