Norton, Richard, 1872-1918

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Richard Norton (b. February 9, 1872, Dresden, Germany-d. August 2, 1918, Paris, France), archaeologist and art scholar, was the organizer and head of the American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps, also known as the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps, which served on the front in France in World War I from 1914 until it was taken over by the American Army in 1917. He was the son of Professor Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard and Susan Sedgewick Norton. He graduated from Harvard in 1892, and was director of the American School of Classical Studies in Rome from 1899 to 1907. He was director of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts expedition to excavate the ruins of Cyrene in 1910 and 1911.
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associatedWith American School of Classical Studies in Rome. Museum. corporateBody
associatedWith American Volunteer Motor-Ambulance Corps. corporateBody
associatedWith Forbes, Edward Waldo, 1873-1969. person
associatedWith James, Henry, 1843-1916. person
associatedWith Kelsey, Francis W. (Francis Willey), b. 1858, person
associatedWith Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930. person
associatedWith Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908. person
associatedWith Norton, Eliot, 1863-1932. person
associatedWith Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. corporateBody
correspondedWith Thayer, William Roscoe, 1859-1923 person
correspondedWith Wendell family. family
Place Name Admin Code Country
Libya 00 LY
Subject
Ambulance service
Excavations (Archaeology)
Volunteer workers in ambulance service
World War, 1914-1918
Occupation
Ambulance drivers
Ambulance drivers
Archaelogists
Art historians
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Person

Birth 1872

Death 1918

Americans

English

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