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| 1779 births | |
| disney, john | |
| 1857 deaths | |
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Disney was Educated at home until the age of 16, when he went up to Peterhouse College, Cambridge . In 1798 he was admitted to the Inner Temple , and was called to the Bar in 1803 . Subsequently he was appointed Recorder of Bridport in 1807 and Sheriff of Dorset in 1818 . He left the post of Recorder in 1823 and at some point afterwards moved to Essex . In 1816 his father died and Disney inherited a collection of Antiquities that had been collected by his family. He began to Catalogue these antiquities, and to add to the Collection . The collection was further enlarged by gifts from Charles Callis Western and James Christie . His catalogue was eventually published in 1846 as ''Museum Disneianum'', closely followed by a second edition and supplements. Disney presented most of the Sculptures in his collection to the Fitzwilliam Museum , Cambridge in 1850 . In 1851 he endowed with £ 1,000 the Disney Professorship Of Archaeology at the University Of Cambridge . Upon his death in 1857 an additional £3,500 were bequested to support the Disney Professorship, and what remained of his private collection was sold by Christie's Auction house. Disney was married to Sophia Disney-Ffytche in 1802 . They had three children; two sons and a daughter. Disney was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1832 and Fellow of the Society Of Antiquaries in 1839 . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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