John Linton Myres

Sir John Linton Myres MA, FSA, FRGS
Born	1869
Died	1954
Residence	Christ Church, Oxford [1899] and 1 Norham Gardens, Oxford [1903] 26 Abercromby Square, Liverpool [1907] 101 Banbury Road, Oxford [1911]
Occupation	academic
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow - life compounder elected_AI 1893 societies Society of Antiquaries Royal Geographical Society Folklore Society Hellenic Society British Association Anthropological Society of Paris

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AI Council 1896 Member
AI Council 1897 Member
AI Council 1898 Member
AI Council 1899 Member
AI Council 1900 Hon. Secretary
AI Council 1901 Hon. Secretary
AI Council 1902 Hon. Secretary
AI Council 1903 Hon. Secretary
RAI Council 1922 Vice President
RAI Council 1923 Vice President
RAI Council 1924 Vice President
RAI Council 1925 Member
RAI Council 1926 Member
RAI Council 1927 Member
RAI Council 1928 President
RAI Council 1929 President
RAI Council 1930-31 President
RAI Council 1939-40 Hon. Editor of Man
RAI Council 1940-41 Hon. Editor of Man
RAI Council 1941-42 Hon. Editor of Man
RAI Council 1942-43 Hon. Editor of Man
RAI Council 1943-44 Hon. Editor of Man
RAI Council 1944-45 Hon. Editor of Man
RAI Council 1945-46 Hon. Editor of Man
RAI Council 1946-47 Hon. Editor of Man

House Notes

Wykeham Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford, Corresp. Member, Anthrop. Soc., Paris

Gladstone Professor of Greek and Lecturer in Ancient Geography in the University of Liverpool [1907]

1933 HML The Cretan labyrinth: a retrospect of Aegean research Delivered 28th Nov. at Royal Society

Notes From Elsewhere

Sir John Linton Myres (3 July 1869 in Preston – 6 March 1954 in Oxford) was a British archaeologist who conducted excavations in Cyprus in 1904.[1] He became the first Wykeham Professor of Ancient History, at the University of Oxford, in 1910, having been Gladstone Professor of Greek and Lecturer in Ancient Geography, University of Liverpool from 1907.[2] He contributed to the British Naval Intelligence Division Geographical Handbook Series that was published during the Second World War, and to the noted 11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1910–1911). He highly influenced the British-Australian archaeologist Vere Gordon Childe.

Born Preston, Lancashire; died Oxford. Knighted 1943.
Honorary degrees from Wales, Manchester, Witwatersrand and Athens.
Victoria Medal of RGS. Notable naval service in World War I. Important figure in Oxford academic politics and instrumental in setting up Diploma in Anthropology. Father of John Nowell Linton Myres, Bodley’s librarian

Publications

External Publications

The Dawn of History (1911)
Handbook of the Cesnola collection of antiquities from Cyprus (1914)
The Political Ideas of the Greeks (1927)
Who were the Greeks? (1930), Sather Lectures Herodotus (1953)

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