COULSTON, Jonathan Charles Nelson (1957-2024)

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Obit in the Daily Telegraph 7 August 2024 -  Jon Coulston, classics scholar and authority on Trajan's Column in Rome – obituary (telegraph.co.uk)

He was the son of John Alban Horatio Nelson COULSTON (b 1927), retired insurance superintendent of Dorset, and (m 1956 as his 1st w, div 1966) Shellagh Alston GARTLAN.  His father was the son of Capt Henry Charles COULSTON (1891-1940 killed on active service in France) and (m 1921) Lady Edith Mary Josephine NELSON (1897-1978)  d of the 5th Earl Nelson.  He m 2000 Hazel DODGE

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Jon Coulston, classics scholar and authority on Trajan’s Column in Rome – obituary

The column is covered with carvings, which he concluded were composed ‘by grunts at the stone face, not on a drawing board in the studio’

Jon Coulston, who has died of cancer aged 67, was a leading scholar on the iconography of Trajan’s column in Rome, one of the most detailed military monuments to survive from the Roman Empire…….

Jonathan Charles Nelson Coulston was born on July 5 1957, and after a BA at Leicester University did postgraduate research at the University of Newcastle. In 1988 he took a PhD with a thesis entitled “Trajan’s column: the sculpting and relief content of a Roman propaganda monument”…………

A kindly man and a brilliant lecturer, Coulston was popular with both colleagues and students. In 2016 he was presented with a University Teaching Award. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1991 and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2002.

Jon Coulston is survived by his wife Hazel.

Jon Coulston, born July 5 1957, died July 6 2024

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Also scion of gentry family Coulston of Hawksheads (BLG 1952)