George H. Everett Jeffery

George H. Everett Jeffery (1855–1935) was the Curator of Ancient Monuments in Cyprus from 1903 until his death in 1935.[1]

George H. Everett Jeffery
Born1855
Died1935
OccupationCurator

Among his publications is the authoritative Description of the Historical Monuments of Cyprus, published in 1918 and frequently reprinted.[2] His public contributions include the supervision of the construction of the Cyprus Museum from 1908.

More recently Jeffery's diaries have been studied and published by Despina Pilides.[3]

Publications
  • Cobham, Claude Delavel, and George H. Everett Jeffery. An Attempt at a Bibliography of Cyprus. Cyprus: Printed at the G.P.O., Nicosia, 1929.
  • Jeffery, George Everett. A Description of the Historic Monuments of Cyprus. Studies in the archæology and architecture of the island. With illustrations [and plans], etc. (Nicosia : W. J. Archer, 1918).
  • Jeffery, George. A Brief Description of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, and Other Christian Churches in the Holy City, With Some Account of the Mediæval Copies of the Holy Sepulchre Surviving in Europe. Cambridge [England]: University Press, 1919.

Notes
  1. http://asorblog.org/2014/06/10/cypriot-archaeology-and-the-great-war/ Retrieved June 2016
  2. Jeffery, George, A Description of the Historic Monuments of Cyprus (London: Zeno, 1983).
  3. Despina Pilides, George Jeffery: His Diaries and the Ancient Monuments of Cyprus (Nicosia: [Department of Antiquities, Cyprus], 2009).
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