Kenneth de Burgh Codrington

Kenneth de Burgh Codrington (1899-1986) was a British archaeologist and art historian of India. He was Keeper of the Indian Section of the Victoria and Albert Museum.[1]

Born in India on 5 June 1899, Codrington grew up in the North-West Frontier. He was educated at Sherbane School and Cadet College, Wellington, India; Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; and Wadham College, Oxford. He joined the Indian Army in 1917, but was invalided in 1921. He married Elizabeth Gill in 1921, and after divorce, married Philippa Christine in 1927. He then turned to an academic career. He died on 1 January 1986.

Academic and Archaeological Career

Codrington earned a BA in 1921 and an MA in 1926. He was Professor of Archaeology and Fellow of Graduate School at the University of Cincinnati 1925-26. From 1931, he was an Honorary Lecturer at University College and S.O.A.S. in London, and from 1948 he was Professor of Indian Archaeology until his retirement in 1966. From 1935 to 1948 he was also Keeper of the Indian Section of the Victoria and Albert Museum. He was on an archaeological mission in Afghanistan between 1940-42 (also working for British intelligence), and was at the excavations led by Joseph Hackin in Begram in 1940. In 1972 Codrington directed the excavations at Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.

Publications
  • Ancient India from the earliest times to the Guptas with notes on the architecture and sculpture of the mediæval period (1926)
  • An Introduction to the Study of Medieval Indian Sculpture (1929)
  • An Introduction to the Study of Islamic Art of India (1934)
  • The Study of Indian Art (1988)
  • The Woods of the Image (1934)
  • "Museum Registration" (1928) - Science Museum: Typescript of Codrington's views on the responsibilities of officers for the "selection, purchase or acceptance, registration, description and care of objects"
  • "Visit to Afghanistan" (1941-1943) - The National Archives, Kew (ref: ED 23/763)

References
  1. "CODRINGTON, Kenneth de Burgh – Persons of Indian Studies by Prof. Dr. Klaus Karttunen".
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