Talfourd Ely


Talfourd Ely FSA was a British archaeologist, classicist, and author of several books, notably A Manual of Archaeology and Roman Hayling.

Career

Talfourd Ely contributed many articles on archaeology to learned journals and taught Latin and other classical languages at University College London.

Family and friends

Talfourd Ely was a nephew of Francis Talfourd, the dramatist, and a great-nephew of Sir Thomas Talfourd, author of “Ion.” In 1863 he married Sarah Ada Dawson, a daughter of John Dawson, Esq., Berrymead Priory, Acton. In the 1860s Henry Crabb Robinson was a lodger in the house of Mr. and Mrs. Ely in London at 30 Russell Square and was a family friend. Talfourd Ely was a grandson of John Towill Rutt, who was an early friend of Crabb Robinson.

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