ABSTRACT
Robert Weir Schultz was born in 1860 in Scotland, where he was trained as an architect.1 In 1885 he won the Golden Medal of the Royal Academy and the Travelling Scholarship of £200 that went with it. With Sidney Howard Barnsley, also an architect, who was five years younger, he set out in 1887, and together they visited Italy, Greece and Turkey. In Greece they worked for the British School on subjects that had to do with Ancient Greece: monuments, inscriptions, weapons and sculpture. The Report of the Director of the British School for the year 1888-89 shows Schultz busy recording remains from the classical period:
Around this time a strong interest in Byzantine monuments started to be expressed by a number of French scholars, Gabriel Millet in particular. In the later part of 1888 Millet undertook the responsibility for the restoration of an important monument of the middle Byzantine period:
1 I would like to express my warmest gratitude to all the people who helped me in various stages with the material related to this paper, and in particular Michael Angold, Robin Cormack, Liza French, Hector Catling, the late Martin Price, Richard A. Tomlinson, Margaret Cogzell and Penny Wilson-Zarganis. I would also like to thank the British School at Athens for permission to study and publish material from the Notebooks. Biographical information on R. W. Schultz is based mainly on the book by Gavin Stamp, Robert Weir Schultz, Architect, and his work for the Marquess of Bute. An Essay (Mount Stuart, 1981).
