James Leslie Starkey
| James Leslie Starkey | |||||||||
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| Born | 1895 | ||||||||
| Died | 1938 | ||||||||
| Residence | Badari, Sydney Road, Walton on Thames | ||||||||
| Occupation | archaeologist | ||||||||
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1927.06.28 proposed by M.A. Murray, seconded by E.N. Fallaize
1938.01.25 The death of the following was announced: Mr James Leslie Starkey, Capt. H.W. Seton Karr, Bishop H.W. Williams and Prof. Thilenius. ... It was resolved that the late Mr J.L. Starkey’s subscription should be refunded, and that a letter of condolence be sent to Mrs Starkey by the President.
death noted in Report of the Council 1937-1938
Obituary in Man 38, 38
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James Leslie Starkey, F.S.A. (3 January 1895 – 10 January 1938) was a noted British archaeologist of the ancient Near East and Palestine in the period before the Second World War. The chief excavator of the first archaeological expedition to the important site of Lachish (Tell ed-Duweir) from 1932, Starkey was robbed and killed near Bayt Jibrin on a track leading from Bayt Jibrin to Hebron.[1] Issa Battat, a rebel commander from the ad-Dhahiriya area who led a rebel unit during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine against the British, was held responsible by the British authorities for Starkey's killing. Battat was later killed in an ambush by British forces in May 1938.[2][3] On the other hand, Yosef Garfinkel has suggested that the murder of Starkey had more to do with a dispute between the archaeologists, the government, and the Arab owners of the Lachish site.[4] No agreement had been reached for access to the top of the mound and the government was in the process of compulsorily expropriating it.[4]
Starkey is buried in Protestant Cemetery on Mount Zion, Jerusalem.
I was interested to note that he was proposed by Margaret Murray as she taught him Egyptian Heiroglyps in 1922 at her evening classes in 1921 ish [email from his grand-daughter Wendy Slaninka Oct. 2020]
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