Robert Lockhart Hobson

Robert Lockhart Hobson, 1934
The cover of Chinese pottery and porcelain, 1915

Robert Lockhart Hobson CB (26 July 1872[1][2] – 5 June 1941) was a British civil servant and antiquarian. He was keeper of the Department of Ceramics and Ethnography at the British Museum and an authority on Far Eastern ceramics. He was noted for his cataloguing which The Times described as establishing firm facts for what had previously been "surmise and unproved tradition"[3] and he was highly influential through his writing in the elevation of Chinese ceramics from craft works to the status of objects of fine art. He was president of the Oriental Ceramic Society from 1939 to 1942.

  1. ^ Ireland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1620–1911
  2. ^ 1939 England and Wales Register
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