Daniel Henry Haigh

Daniel Henry Haigh (7 August 1819 — 10 May 1879) was a noted Victorian scholar of Anglo-Saxon history and literature, as well as a runologist and numismatist.

He retired in 1876, suffering from poor health and bronchitis, and went to live at St Mary's College, Oscott, where he died on 10 May 1879 after a short illness.

However, his transcriptions and interpretations of runic monuments have been criticized by Raymond Page as "often erratic, showing an eagerness to find runes where none exist".

[3] Haigh also studied Egyptian hieroglyphs and Assyrian Cuneiform inscriptions, contributing several articles to Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Alterthumskunde.

[citation needed] Haigh wrote several papers on early medieval numismatics, and examined part of the St Leonard's Place hoard.