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Sir Charles Walston

Sir Charles Walston
Sir Charles Walston

Dates of office: 1883 - 1889

Born into a Jewish family in New York in 1856, Walston was the director of Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum, the archaeologist who excavated Aristotle's tomb, and both an organiser of and competitor in the 1st Olympiad in Athens in 1896.

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