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MR. ROBERT LOCKHART HOBSON, keeper of the Department of Oriental Antiquities and Ethnography of the. British Museum (Bloomsbury), will retire on July 20. Mr. Hobson, who was educated at St. John's, Leatherhead, and Trinity College, Cambridge, taking a first class in the Classical Tripos in 1893, joined the staff of the British Museum in 1897, when he was attached to the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography. Specializing in the study of ceramics, his early published work dealt with English pottery and porcelain, but later he directed his attention to the ceramics of the Far East, on which he became one of the first authorities in Great Britain, especially in the broader cultural aspects of the subject. His "Chinese Pottery and Porcelain"(1915) was followed by a number of volumes of both special and general interest, such as "The Wares of the Ming Dynasty"(1923), "The Art of the Chinese Potter"(1923) and "The Later Ceramic Wares of China"(1925); but his most considerable production was his authoritative "Catalogue of the Eumorfopoulos Collection"(1925-28). He was also the author of the official guide to the collections of Far Eastern pottery in the British Museum (1924). Mr. Hobson became deputy keeper of his Department in 1921, and on its reorganization some years later as the Department of Oriental Antiquities and Ethnography, was appointed keeper. He received the honour of C.B. in 1931.
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R. L. Hobson, C. B. Nature 142, 105 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142105a0
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