The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 52, December 26, 2004, Article 5

HENRY HART OBITUARY; NEAR EAST COINAGE EXPERT

  On December 21, The Times published an obituary of Near 
  Eastern coinage expert Henry Hart: 

  "The Rev Henry Hart, divinity scholar and Dean of Queens' 
  College, Cambridge, was born on April 15, 1912. He died 
  on October 30, 2004, aged 92."

  "Hart also formed a notable collection of Greek and 
  Roman coins to illustrate his Semitic studies and the 
  history of the ancient Near East. It contained some major
  rarities and was remarkable for the complete series of 
  the coinage of the Seleucid kings of Syria, and in forming
  it he bought the finest specimens available. He presented
  his collections to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1963 and 
  1969. He was an honorary fellow of the Royal Numismatic 
  Society."

  "The office of dean at Queens' in that period involved 
  running the chapel and being head of discipline. In 
  those days of curfews and locked gates, Hart once caught
  an undergraduate climbing into college late at night. 
  Poised on the top of the railings, and seeing the dean 
  below, the student exclaimed, "O, God!" "No - just his 
  earthly representative," replied Hart, a quip that has 
  not only gone down in Cambridge folklore but also 
  serves as a typical example of Hart's ready wit."

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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