Wilfrid James Hemp, FSA (27 April 1882, Richmond upon Thames, Surrey – 14 April 1962, Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire) was an English archaeologist and antiquarian, an expert on medieval and pre-historic Wales.
[2] Elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1913, he was the first Inspector of Ancient Monuments for Wales, set up under the Act of 1913, of which he was secretary until 1928, and thereafter until his death a member of the board.
[3] In 1928, he was appointed secretary of the Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire.
[4] He was primarily responsible for the Royal Commission's volume on Anglesey, "which set a new standard in the commission's inventories for the Principality".
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