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.

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Obituary: Nicolas Coldstream (1927-2008)

Nicolas Coldstream, best known for his work on Early Iron Age Greece, died on March 21, 2008. He was born on March 30, 1927, at Lahore, India, and was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge. He was temporary assistant keeper in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum (1956-57), and then Macmillan Student at the BSA (1957-60). In 1960 he was appointed lecturer at Bedford College, University of London, promoted reader (1966), and subsequently professor of Aegean Archaeology (1975). He was elected Yates Professor of Classical Archaeology at University College London in 1983 (a position he held until his retirement in 1992).

Coldstream edited the Annual of the British School at Athens (1968-73) and was chair of the Managing Committee (1987-91).

• Daily Telegraph, April 4, 2008.
• The Times, April 9, 2008.
• The Independent, April 15, 2008 (by Gerald Cadogan)
  

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Associates of the BSA: Ambrose Poynter

Ambrose Poynter (1867-1923) was in the second batch of Associates to be appointed. Poynter was the son of Sir Edward John Poynter (1836-1919) - who chaired the Annual Meeting of Subscribers in July 1897 - and his wife Agnes (Macdonald) (1843-1906); his grandfather was the architect Ambrose Poynter (1796-1886). The wider family included his cousins Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) and the prime minister Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947), and his uncle the painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833-98)

The younger Ambrose Poynter had been educated at Eton, and the Royal Academy School where he articled to George Aitchison (1825-1910), professor of architecture (1887-1905). Poynter became an architect in 1893. In the spring of 1897 he travelled to Greece to work on Roman period pavements in the Theatre of Dionysos and the Odeion of Herodes Atticus at Athens, and the Temple of Zeus at Olympia.

Reference
Poynter, A. M. 1896/7. "Remarks on three sectile pavements in Greece." Annual of the British School at Athens 3: 175-81.

Image
Theatre of Dionysos, Athens. © David Gill.

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BSA and King's College

Students

• Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936). Eton. Scholar (1882); Bell Scholar (1883); Part 1, 1st (1884); Craven Scholar (1884); Part 2, 1st (1885). BSA 1887/88.
• William Loring (1865-1915). Eton. Bell Scholar (1886); Part 1, 1st (1887); Battie Scholar (1888); Part 2, 1st (1889). BSA 1889/90 (Cambridge Studentship), 1890/91 (Craven University Student), 1891/92, 1892/93; Secretary 1897-1903.
• Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940). Marlborough. Exhibitioner (1888); Part 1, 1st (1890); Scholar (1890); Part 2, 1st (1891). BSA 1891/92 (Worts Fund), 1892/93 (Cambridge Studentship), 1893/94 (Craven Student), 1894/95 (Prendergast Greek Student).
• Arthur George Bather (1868-1928). Rossall. Scholar; Part 1, 1st (1889); Part 2, 1st (1891). BSA 1889/90, 1891/92 (Cambridge Studentship), 1892/93 (Prendergast Greek Studentship), 1893/94 (Cambridge Studentship).
  
• Robert John Grote Mayor (1869-1947). Eton. Bell Scholar (1889); Craven Scholar (1891); Part 2, 1st (1892). BSA 1892/93.
• Vincent Wodehouse Yorke (1869-1957). Eton. Part 1, 1st (1891); Scholar (1891); Part 2, 1st (1892). BSA 1892/93, 1893/94; Hon. Treasurer 1906-55.
  
• Frank Russell Earp (1871-1955). Uppingham. Exhibitioner (1892); Part 1, 1st (1893); Scholar (1893); Part 2, 1st (1894). BSA 1896/97.
• Clement Gutch (1875-1908). Harrow. Part 1, 1st (1897); Scholar (1897); Part 2, Greek and Roman Archaeology, 1st (1898). BSA 1898/99 (Cambridge Studentship).
• John Hubert Marshall (1876-1958). Dulwich. Scholar; Part 1, 1st (1898); Scholar (1898); Part 2, 1st (1900). BSA 1898/99, 1900/01 (Prendergast Greek Studentship), 1901/02 (Craven Student).
• Frederick William Hasluck (1878-1920). Leys. Part 1, 1st (1899); Scholar (1899); Part 2, 1st (1901). BSA 1901/02 (Cambridge Studentship), 1902/03, 1904/05, 1905/06; Assistant Director and Librarian 1906-15.

Fellows

• Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936). Fellow (1887-1905); Dean and Tutor; Provost (1905-18); Vice-Chancellor (1913-14).
• William Loring (1865-1915). Fellow (1891-97).
• Arthur George Bather (1868-1928). Fellow (1894); Assistant Master at Winchester (1894-1928).
• Robert John Grote Mayor (1869-1947). Fellow (1894).
• Vincent Wodehouse Yorke (1869-1957). Fellow (1895).
• Frank Russell Earp (1871-1955). Fellow (1897).
• Frederick William Hasluck (1878-1920). Fellow (1904).
• Sir John Hubert Marshall (1876-1958). Hon. Fellow (1927).

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Eton and the BSA

Eton had the second largest grouping of students at the BSA after Winchester. The number included one director (Bosanquet, who had also served as assistant director to David Hogarth), and one assistant director (Piddington, assistant to Cecil Harcourt Smith).

Of this group, six had continued their studies at Cambridge:

• Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936), King's College, Cambridge; BSA 1887/88. Later Provost of Eton 1918-36.
• William Loring (1865-1915), King's College, Cambridge; BSA 1889/90 and subsequent years.
• Robert John Grote Mayor (1869-1947), King's College, Cambridge; BSA 1892/93.
• Vincent Wodehouse Yorke (1869-1957), King's College, Cambridge; BSA 1892/93, 1893/94.
• Robert Carr Bosanquet (1871-1935), Trinity College, Cambridge; BSA 1892/93 and subsequent years; assistant director, 1899/1900; director 1900/06.
• Arthur Charles Sheepshanks (1884-1961), Trinity College, Cambridge; BSR and BSA 1907/08; assistant master at Eton 1906-38.

Two went up to Oxford:

• Charles Cuthbert Inge (1868-1957), Magdalen College, Oxford; BSA 1891/92.
• John George Piddington (J.G. Smith) (b. 1869), Magdalen College, Oxford; BSA 1891/92; re-admitted 1895/96 as assistant director to Cecil Harcourt Smith.

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