WROTH, Warwick William. Clerkenwell near London 24.8.1858 — London 26.9.1911. British Numismatist. Son of Rev. Warwick Reed Wroth (1825?–1867) and Sophia Brooks. After King’s School in Canterbury joined British Museum Dept. of coins and medals in 1878. Finally Senior Assistant Keeper of Coins and Medals in British Museum. Died after an operation caused by a brief illness. Apparently unmarried.
Publications: Catalogue of the HistCoins of Parthia. 1903, repr. 88+289 p. 37 pl. Bologna 1964.
– “Otanes, and Phraates IV”, NC 3:20, 1900, 89-95; “On the Rearrangement of Parthian Coinage” Ibid. 181-202; also wrote much on Greek numismatics and articles on numismatists in D.N.B.
– With A. E. Wroth (his brother): The London Pleasure Gardens of the Eighteenth Century. 335 p. L. 1896.
Sources: *G.F. Hill & J. Allan, NC 12, 1912, 107-110 (with bibliography); Wikipedia (from an obituary in The Times 28.9.1911)
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