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Dr John Lamplugh Kirk (born 1869) was a British amateur archaeologist and founder of York Castle Museum in York, North Yorkshire, England. He was born in Hull in 1869 and practised as a doctor in London before moving to Pickering in 1898. In the early 1930s Kirk decided to house his collections at a museum created within the old Female Prison in York, which became York Castle Museum.

Material Kirk excavated with Philip Corder in the 1920s forms the core of the Roman archaeology collection of the Malton Museum in Malton, North Yorkshire.