HOYLE
,
WILLIAM EVANS
(
1855
-
1926
),
first director of the National Museum of Wales
;
b.
28 Jan. 1855
at
Manchester
, son of
William Jennings
Hoyle
. He was educated at
Owens College
and at [
Exeter College
and afterwards at]
Christ Church
,
Oxford
(
B.A.
1877
,
M.A.
1882
,
D.Sc.
); he was also
M.R.C.S.
From
1889 to 1909
he was
director
of the
Manchester Museum
, and from
1909
till his retirement in
1924
,
director
of the
National Museum of Wales
, where there is a portrait in oils. He d. at
Porthcawl
,
7 Feb. 1926
.
Bibliography:
-
Foster
,
Alumni Oxonienses
;
-
Nature
,
20 Feb. 1926
;
-
Museums journal
,
March 1926
;
-
information from
Mr. A. H. Lee
, former secretary of the National Museum.
Author:
Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, C.B.E., D.Litt., Ll.D.,
F.S.A., (1881-1969), Bangor
