Person

Girling, F. A.

1898–1966

VIAF, accessed November 20, 2017: |b 306214955 (hdg.: F. A. Girling). -Frank Aldous Girling, FSA (1898- 1966) was an East Anglian farmer, photographer and expert amateur archaeologist. He provided photographs for several books about East Anglia, including Nikolaus Pevsner’s Suffolk and his photography led to an important discovery of Bronze Age barrows in Essex. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1942 ... Frank Girling was born in 1898 at Moverons Farm, Brightlingsea, which was run by his father, Frank Disney Girling, who served as deputy mayor of Brightlingsea in 1897 ... When he died, Girling's Essex photographs were donated to the Essex Society for Archaeology and History and to Colchester Museum, while his photos of Suffolk went to Ipswich Library