During the repairs which followed, much of his time was spent on ensuring the completion of the essential archaeological investigations, in his capacity as Director of Research, with a committee chaired by his friend, Sir Mortimer Wheeler.
22.
Established in January 1946 by Sir Mortimer Wheeler during his tenure as Director-General of the ASI, " Ancient India " was published with an aim to " interest the educated Indian public in current work relating to the exploration and conservation of their great heritage of material culture " as well as to " provide technical matter primarily of interest to the archaeologist ".
23.
MP Tom Driberg made a speech in an adjournment debate in February 1961, quoting a statement by Sir Mortimer Wheeler published in " The Times " the previous day, saying that " Professor Pevsner has placed the threatened London Coal Exchange among the twelve irreplaceable buildings of 19th century England . . . It expresses an era of urban revolution as no other surviving building is capable of doing . . . The Coal Exchange is a national monument in the fullest sense of the phrase, and its destruction would be unforgivable ."
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Michael Berry ( later Baron Hartwell ) and Lady Berry; Frederick Smith, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead, with his son The Viscount of Furneaux ( later Frederick Smith, 3rd Earl of Birkenhead; the classical scholar Sir Maurice Bowra; American born Professor Sir Arthur Lehman Goodhart, and his wife Lady Goodhart; The Lord Moyne ( Bryan Walter Guinness of the brewing family ) and Lady Elisabeth Moyne, with four of their children; the former war-time MI6 Swiss station chief Count Frederick Vanden-Heuvel and his wife Countess Vanden-Heuvel; and the noted archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler and Lady Wheeler.
