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HISTORY
OF THE
SOCIETY OF DILETTANTI
CHAPTER I
Antiquity of the Society—State of England at its foundation
—Date of foundation—Date of first records—Char-
acter of original members—Toung Englishmen on the
Grand Tour—Choice of name—Earliest meetings—
Members in 1736—Dashwood—Middlesex—Har-
court—The brothers Gray—W. Ponsonby—7^. Gren-
ville—Howe, Archer, Denny, Strode, SewallisShirley—
Boonej Liddell, Fauquier, Harris^ Dingley^ Smithson—
Hanbury Williams, Mitchell, Villiers—Smyth, Hay,
Spence, &c.—Sandwich—Bedford, Brand, Holdernesse
—Other members before 17^0.
THE history to be narrated in the following Antiquity
chapters is that of a small private society of <f*f>*
gentlemen which for more than a century and Soctety-
a half has exercised an active influence in matters
connected with public taste and the fine arts in
this country, and whose enterprise in the special field
of classical excavation and research has earned the
grateful recognition of scholars and the cultivated
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OF THE
SOCIETY OF DILETTANTI
CHAPTER I
Antiquity of the Society—State of England at its foundation
—Date of foundation—Date of first records—Char-
acter of original members—Toung Englishmen on the
Grand Tour—Choice of name—Earliest meetings—
Members in 1736—Dashwood—Middlesex—Har-
court—The brothers Gray—W. Ponsonby—7^. Gren-
ville—Howe, Archer, Denny, Strode, SewallisShirley—
Boonej Liddell, Fauquier, Harris^ Dingley^ Smithson—
Hanbury Williams, Mitchell, Villiers—Smyth, Hay,
Spence, &c.—Sandwich—Bedford, Brand, Holdernesse
—Other members before 17^0.
THE history to be narrated in the following Antiquity
chapters is that of a small private society of <f*f>*
gentlemen which for more than a century and Soctety-
a half has exercised an active influence in matters
connected with public taste and the fine arts in
this country, and whose enterprise in the special field
of classical excavation and research has earned the
grateful recognition of scholars and the cultivated
r