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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = John Linton
| name = Myres
| honorific_prefix = Sir
| honorific_suffix = MA, FSA, FRGS
| image = File:Myres,_John_Linton.jpg
| birth_date = 1869
| death_date = 1954
| address = Christ Church, Oxford [1899]<br />and 1 Norham Gardens, Oxford [1903]<br />26 Abercromby Square, Liverpool [1907]<br />101 Banbury Road, Oxford [1911]<br />
| occupation = academic
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1893
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ordinary fellow - life compounder
| left =
| clubs =
| societies = Society of Antiquaries<br />Royal Geographical Society<br />Folklore Society<br />Hellenic Society<br />British Association<br />Anthropological Society of Paris
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
AI Council 1896 Member<br />AI Council 1897 Member<br />AI Council 1898 Member<br />AI Council 1899 Member<br />AI Council 1900 Hon. Secretary<br />AI Council 1901 Hon. Secretary<br />AI Council 1902 Hon. Secretary<br />AI Council 1903 Hon. Secretary<br />RAI Council 1922 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1923 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1924 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1925 Member<br />RAI Council 1926 Member<br />RAI Council 1927 Member<br />RAI Council 1928 President<br />RAI Council 1929 President<br />RAI Council 1930-31 President<br />RAI Council 1939-40 Hon. Editor of Man<br />RAI Council 1940-41 Hon. Editor of Man<br />RAI Council 1941-42 Hon. Editor of Man<br />RAI Council 1942-43 Hon. Editor of Man<br />RAI Council 1943-44 Hon. Editor of Man<br />RAI Council 1944-45 Hon. Editor of Man<br />RAI Council 1945-46 Hon. Editor of Man<br />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<br /><br />Gladstone Professor of Greek and Lecturer in Ancient Geography in the University of Liverpool [1907]<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Born Preston, Lancashire; died Oxford. Knighted 1943.<br />Honorary degrees from Wales, Manchester, Witwatersrand and Athens.<br />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<br /><br /><br /><br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
The Dawn of History (1911) <br />Handbook of the Cesnola collection of antiquities from Cyprus (1914) <br />The Political Ideas of the Greeks (1927)<br />Who were the Greeks? (1930), Sather Lectures Herodotus (1953)<br />
=== House Publications ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
census
=== Other Material ===
| first_name = John Linton
| name = Myres
| honorific_prefix = Sir
| honorific_suffix = MA, FSA, FRGS
| image = File:Myres,_John_Linton.jpg
| birth_date = 1869
| death_date = 1954
| address = Christ Church, Oxford [1899]<br />and 1 Norham Gardens, Oxford [1903]<br />26 Abercromby Square, Liverpool [1907]<br />101 Banbury Road, Oxford [1911]<br />
| occupation = academic
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1893
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ordinary fellow - life compounder
| left =
| clubs =
| societies = Society of Antiquaries<br />Royal Geographical Society<br />Folklore Society<br />Hellenic Society<br />British Association<br />Anthropological Society of Paris
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
AI Council 1896 Member<br />AI Council 1897 Member<br />AI Council 1898 Member<br />AI Council 1899 Member<br />AI Council 1900 Hon. Secretary<br />AI Council 1901 Hon. Secretary<br />AI Council 1902 Hon. Secretary<br />AI Council 1903 Hon. Secretary<br />RAI Council 1922 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1923 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1924 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1925 Member<br />RAI Council 1926 Member<br />RAI Council 1927 Member<br />RAI Council 1928 President<br />RAI Council 1929 President<br />RAI Council 1930-31 President<br />RAI Council 1939-40 Hon. Editor of Man<br />RAI Council 1940-41 Hon. Editor of Man<br />RAI Council 1941-42 Hon. Editor of Man<br />RAI Council 1942-43 Hon. Editor of Man<br />RAI Council 1943-44 Hon. Editor of Man<br />RAI Council 1944-45 Hon. Editor of Man<br />RAI Council 1945-46 Hon. Editor of Man<br />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<br /><br />Gladstone Professor of Greek and Lecturer in Ancient Geography in the University of Liverpool [1907]<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Born Preston, Lancashire; died Oxford. Knighted 1943.<br />Honorary degrees from Wales, Manchester, Witwatersrand and Athens.<br />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<br /><br /><br /><br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
The Dawn of History (1911) <br />Handbook of the Cesnola collection of antiquities from Cyprus (1914) <br />The Political Ideas of the Greeks (1927)<br />Who were the Greeks? (1930), Sather Lectures Herodotus (1953)<br />
=== House Publications ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
census
=== Other Material ===