{"name": "Ewart Oakeshott", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Ronald Ewart Oakeshott was a British illustrator, collector, and amateur historian who wrote prodigiously on medieval arms and armour. He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a Founder Member of the Arms and Armour Society, and the Founder of the Oakeshott Institute. He created a classification system of the medieval sword, the Oakeshott typology, a systematic organization of medieval weaponry."}, "birth_date": "25 May 1916", "personal_name": "R. Ewart Oakeshott", "alternate_names": ["Ronald Ewart Oakeshott", "Ewart R. Oakeshott", "R Ewart Oakeshott", "R. E. Oakeshott", "R.Ewart Oakeshott"], "remote_ids": {"wikidata": "Q709512", "viaf": "73945079", "lc_naf": "n79086274"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "death_date": "30 September 2002", "key": "/authors/OL232005A", "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-10-30T19:30:39.775652"}}