British Museum group of stone reliefs from the excavations of Max von Oppenheim at Tell Halaf that was purchased in 1920. More material followed from the excavations of Max Mallowan at Chagar Bazar and Tell Brak in 1935–1938 and from Woolley at Alalakh in the years just before and after the Second World War. Mallowan returned with his wife Agatha Christie to carry out further digs at Nimrud in the postwar period which secured many important artefacts for the museum. The collection of Palestinian material was strengthened by the work of Kathleen Kenyon at Jericho in the 1950s and the acquisition in
Max Waechter Borough of Richmond in 1900. He helped preserve the view from Richmond across the river by preventing destructive development. He held the post of High Sheriff of Surrey in 1902 and was knighted in the 1902 Birthday Honours. Waechter was buried in Richmond Cemetery. Max Waechter Sir Max Leonard Waechter (3 October 1837 – 3 October 1924) was a businessman, art collector, philanthropist and advocate of a federal Europe. The great-grandson of a Lutheran pastor, Waechter was born in Stettin, then in Germany, and now Szczecin in Poland. He went to England in 1859 and was naturalised in 1865. He