William Ridgeway

Sir William Ridgeway (6 August 1853 – 12 August 1926) was an Anglo-Irish classical scholar and the Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. Quotes Next to the history of the various branches of the human race there is no more interesting and important subject for man's study than the origin and development of the breeds of domestic horses, the noblest of all the creatures that man has subdued to his will, and the acquisition of which has been...one of the chief factors in the rise and supremacy of the great nations of the ancient, medieval, and modern world. The Origin and Influence of the Thoroughbred Horse (Cambridge, 1905), ch. 1, p. 1 Since Darwin wrote it has been generally held that all our domestic horses have had but a single source, whether they be the fine horses of slender build and great speed, of which the Arab is the type, or the heavy cart-horses, whose origin is commonly found in the coarse, thickset horses of Europe and upper Asia, of which the unimproved Mongolian pony is the representative, or hunters, roadsters, carriage-horses and trappers, which are as everyone knows, the result of a judicious blending of the two first-mentioned classes. The Origin and Influence of the Thoroughbred Horse (Cambridge, 1905), ch. 1, p. 4 External links Category:Academics from Ireland Category:Archaeologists from Ireland Category:University of Cambridge alumni Category:University of Cambridge faculty Category:University of Aberdeen faculty Category:Trinity College Dublin alumni Category:Fellows of the British Academy Category:1853 births Category:1926 deaths