Talfourd Ely FSA (1838–1923) was a British archaeologist, classicist, and author of several books, notably A Manual of Archaeology and Roman Hayling.
[1] Talfourd Ely contributed many articles on archaeology to learned journals and taught Latin and other classical languages at University College London.
This last post he resigned in order to study archaeology at Berlin, where he worked with Ernst Curtius, Kirchhoff, Robert, Furtwängler, and Wattenbach, and became acquainted with other leading scholars.
In the 1860s Henry Crabb Robinson was a lodger in the house of Mr. and Mrs. Ely in London at 30 Russell Square and was a family friend.
Talfourd Ely was a grandson of John Towill Rutt, who was an early friend of Crabb Robinson.