Monday 27 April 2009

The Annual Meeting of Subscribers (1921-38)

The Annual Meetings took place on:
  • 1921, Tuesday 25 October. Burlington House. Chair: Sir John Gennadius.
  • 1922, Tuesday 31 October. Burlington House.
  • 1923, Tuesday 30 October. Burlington House. Chair: William Ralph Inge, The Dean of St Paul's. (Inge's brother, Charles Cuthbert, had been admitted to the BSA.)
  • 1924, Tuesday 28 October. Burlington House. Chair: Montague Rhodes James, the Provost of Eton.
  • 1925
  • 1926, Tuesday 2 November. Aeolian Hall. Chair, Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister.
  • 1927, Tuesday 1 November. Burlington House. Chair, Dr John William Mackail, president of the Classical Association.
  • 1928, Tuesday 6 November. Burlington House. Chair: David Alexander Edward Lindsay, Earl of Crawford and Earl of Balcarres.
  • 1929, Tuesday 5 November. Burlington House. Chair: Sir Rennell Rodd.
  • 1930, Tuesday 4 November. Burlington House. Chair: Sir Henry Hadow, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield.
  • 1931, Tuesday 7 November. Burlington House.
  • 1932, Tuesday 8 November. Burlington House. Chair: Sir Reginald Blomfield, architect.
  • 1933, Wednesday 8 November. Burlington House. Chair: Sir Charles Peers.
  • 1934, Tuesday 30 October. Burlington House.
  • 1935, Tuesday 12 November. burlington House. Chair: Sir George Hill, Director of the British Museum.
  • 1936, Tuesday 17 November. Burlington House. Chair: Lord Eustace Percy.
  • 1937, Tuesday 12 October. Burlington House.
  • 1938, Tuesday 29 November. Burlington House. Chair: the Crown Prince of Sweden.

This list will be revised.

Wednesday 8 April 2009

Students at the British School at Athens (1918-23)

Students admitted under Alan Wace:
  • Harold Collingham: 1919-20 (Craven Student). Queens' College, Cambridge.
  • M. Tierney: 1919-20. University of Ireland.
  • Arnold Walter Lawrence (1900-91): 1919-20 (Craven Fund); 1921-22; 1924-25 (Craven Fellow). New College, Oxford. [ODNB]
  • J.B. Hutton: 1920-21 (Carnegie Trustees).
  • Frank Laurence Lucas (1894-1967): 1920-21 (School Student). Trinity College, Cambridge [ODNB]
  • Bernard Ashmole (1894-1988): 1920-21, 1921-22 (Craven Fellow). Hertford College, Oxford. [ODNB]
  • Henry Theodore Wade Gery (1888-1972): 1920-21; 1921-22, 1922-23. New College, Oxford. [DBC]
  • J.J.E. Hondius: 1920-21 (Foreign Student). University of Utrecht.
  • C.A. Boethius: 1920-21, 1921-22 (Foreign Student). University of Upsala.
  • L.ilian Chandler (Mrs Batey): 1920-21 (Gustav Sachs Memorial Studentship). University of Sheffield.
  • Mary A.B. Herford (Mrs Gustav E.K. Braunholtz): 1920-21. University of Manchester; Somerville College, Oxford.
  • Winifred Lamb (1894-1963): 1920-21; 1921-22, 1922-23, 1923-24, 1924-25, 1927-28, 1928-29, 1929-30, 1930-31. Newnham College, Cambridge. [ODNB]
  • M.A. Hondius-Van Haeften: 1920-21 (Foreign Student). University of Utrecht.
  • Walter Abel Heurtley (1882-1955): 1921-22, 1922-23. Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge; Oxford (Diploma of Archaeology). [DBC]
  • Richard Wyatt Hutchinson (1894-1970): 1921-22; 1930-31. St John's College, Cambridge. [DBC]
  • J.E. Scott: 1921-22. Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
  • E. Smith: 1921-22 (Foreign Student). University of Christiana.
  • A. Smith (Mrs E. Smith): 1921-22 (Foreign Student). University of Christiana.
  • E. Kjellberg: 1921-22 (Foreign Student). University of Lund.
  • J. Waldis: 1921-22 (Foreign Student). University of Zurich.
  • G. Snijder: 1921-22 (Foreign Student). University of Utrecht.
  • John Bell (1890-1958): 1922-23. Balliol College, Oxford. [Obituary: The Times 9 May 1958]
  • Stewart Studdert Clarke (1897-1924): 1922-23, 1923-24 (Craven Fellow). Balliol College, Oxford. Drowned off Salamis. [Obituary: The Times 6 May 1924]
  • Bertrand Leslie Hallward (1901-2003): 1922-23 (School Student). [ODNB]
  • Duncan Campbell MacGregor (c. 1889-1939): 1922-23. Edinburgh University; Trinity College, Oxford. [Obituary: The Times 14 March 1939]
  • Jocelyn Mary Pybus (Mrs A.M. Woodward) (d. 1974): 1922-23. Newnham College, Cambridge.
  • A.G. Russell: 1922-23 (Sachs Student). University of Liverpool.
  • Charles Theodore Seltman (1886-1957): 1922-23 (Prendergast Student). Queens' College, Cambridge. [DBC]
  • O.J. Todd: 1922-23. University of British Columbia.
  • J. Webb: 1922-23. University of Melbourne.

Assistant Directors: The Inter-War Years

The Assistant Directors were:
  • Stanley Casson: 1920-23. [DBC]
  • Walter Abel Heurtley: 1923-33. [DBC]
  • Romilly James Heald Jenkins: 1933 (Senior Student). [Obituary: The Times 9 October 1969]
  • Arthur Hubert Stanley ('Peter') Megaw: 1934 (Senior Student and Librarian); 1935-36. [Obituary: The Times 4 August 2006]
  • Thomas James Dunbabin: 1936-46 (Deputy Director from 1939). [DBC]
Cambridge: Heurtley, Jenkins, Megaw.
Oxford: Casson, Dunbabin.

Directors: The Inter-War Years

The Directors of the BSA during the period 1918-1945 were:
  • Alan John Bayard Wace: 1914-23. [ODNB]
  • Arthur Maurice Woodward: 1923-29. [DBC]
  • Humfry Gilbert Garth Payne: 1929-36. [ODNB]
  • Alan Albert Antisdel Blakeway: 1936. [DBC]
  • Gerard Mackworth Young (Mackworth-Young from 1947): 1936-46. [ODNB]
Cambridge: Wace, Young.
Oxford: Woodward, Payne, Blakeway.