John Linton Myres
| Sir John Linton Myres MA, FSA, FRGS OBE | |||||||||
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| Born | 1869 | ||||||||
| Died | 1954 | ||||||||
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Magdalen College, Oxford [1893] 58 Fellows Road, NW [1897] Christ Church, Oxford [1899] and 1 Norham Gardens, Oxford [1903] 26 Abercromby Square, Liverpool [1907] 101 Banbury Road, Oxford [1911] The Copse, Hincksey, Oxford [1925] [and] New College, Oxford [1927] 13 Clarendon Road, Oxford [1935] 13 Canterbury Road, Oxford [1937] | ||||||||
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academic archaeologist | ||||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
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
1893.10.31 proposed for election at the next meeting
1933 HML The Cretan labyrinth: a retrospect of Aegean research Delivered 28th Nov. at Royal Society
1935.02.19 The President also read a letter from Prof. Myres resigning the Editorship of Man.
1935.07.09 It was resolved to confirm the honorary appointments made by the last Council – Prof. Myres as Editor of Man ..
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]
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)
House Publications
"The Miser's Doom:" A Modern Greek Morality; JAI Vol. 25 (1896), pp. 102-104
1943.03.23 read with lantern slides Ancient Tripoli and Cyrenaica
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