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James Burgess CIE FRSE FRGS MRAS LLD (1832〔Hayavadana Rao, C. (Ed.) (1915) (''The Indian biographical dictionary 1915''. ) Madras: Pillar & Co., pp. 71-72. At Wikisource.〕 – October 1916), was the founder of ''The Indian Antiquary'' in 1872〔Temple, Richard Carnac. (1922) ''(Fifty years of The Indian Antiquary )''. Mazgaon, Bombay: B. Miller, British India Press, p. 3.〕 and an important archaeologist of India in the nineteenth century. ==Life== Burgess was born on 14 August 1832 in Kirkmahoe, Dumfriesshire. He was educated at Dumfries and then Glasgow University and Edinburgh University.〔http://www.jstor.org/stable/25189536?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents〕 He did educational work in Calcutta, 1856 and Bombay, 1861, and was Secretary of the Bombay Geographical Society 1868-73. He was Head of the Archaeological Survey, Western India, 1873, and of South India, 1881. From 1886-89 he was Director General, Archaeological Survey of India.〔 In 1881 Edinburgh University awarded him an honorary Doctor of Letters (LLD).〔http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf〕 He retired to Edinburgh around 1892. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1894. He won their Keith Prize for 1897-99 and served as their Vice President 1908 to 1914.〔http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf〕 He died on 3 October 1916, at 22 Seton Place in Edinburgh.〔http://www.jstor.org/stable/25189536?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Burgess (archaeologist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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