Richard Macgillivry Dawkins

Prof. Richard Macgillivry Dawkins MA D.Litt FBA
Born	1871
Died	1955
Residence	Athens Plas Dulas, Llanddulas, North Wales [1915] Exter College, Oxford; Plas Dulas, Llandulas, Abergele, Denbighshire, Wales [census]
Occupation	archaeologist
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow elected_AI 1908.12.19 societies Hellenic Society Folklore Society Gypsy Lore Society

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1906.11.10 proposed by W. Ridgeway, seconded by T.A. Joyce

Director of the British School of Archaeology, Athens

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Richard MacGillivray Dawkins FBA (24 October 1871 – 4 May 1955) was a British archaeologist.[1][2] He was associated with the British School at Athens, of which he was Director between 1906 and 1913.[3]
He was the son of Rear-Admiral Richard Dawkins of Stoke Gabriel and his wife Mary Louisa McGillivray, only surviving daughter of Simon McGillivray. He was educated at Marlborough College and at King's College, London where he trained as an electrical engineer.
He took part in the dig at Palékastro,[4] and the survey of Lakonia[5] (see Artemis Orthia and Menelaion, Sparta); also at Rhitsona.[6] He undertook linguistic fieldwork in Cappadocia from 1909 to 1911, which resulted in a basic work on Cappadocian Greek. Then he led a dig at Filakopí from 1911.[7]
He was the first Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature at the University of Oxford.
In 1907, he inherited the Plas Dulas estate from a first cousin. There he experimented with plant importation and cultivation. He also displayed archaeological antiquities within the garden.[8]

Publications

External Publications

Modern Greek in Asia Minor (1916)
The sanctuary of Artemis Orthia at Sparta (1929)
The Cypriot Chronicle of Makhairas (1932) The Monks of Athos (1936)
Forty-five Stories from the Dodecanese 1950 Arabian Nights Norman Douglas (1952) Modern Greek Folktales (1953)
More Greek Folktales (1955)
More stories from the Arabian Nights (1957)

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