Winter Gym Membership - The Perfect Time To Join

Most people get out less in the winter than they do in the warmer months. It's just easier to sit in front of the television with a cup of hot tea than it is to bundle up and brave the cold. Besides it's too cold to participate in the activities we do in the summer.However, the inactivity that many...

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Uligan, Maldives Journal

January 29 - February 5, 2008by KT Uligan Atoll, Maldives: 40 Feet in SandAnchorage off the main MotuMaldives Mantas, 12 feeding just outside the anchorage - Very Playful!!Some friends had emailed us and told us that four days was more than enough time in Uligan, and that we would see what they meant...

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Cambridge and the Managing Committee

Cambridge was well represented on the Managing Committee. Professor Percy Gardner (1846-1937) was a member of the first committee: at the time he was holding the Disney chair in Archaeology (1880-87). (He was elected to the Lincoln and Merton chair in Classical Archaeology at Oxford in 1887.) This was not a demanding position. He recalled:Though technically a Professorship, the Disney post was in...

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Indoor Exercises For Your Kids

Cleaning the house expends more calories than one might think. However, if you add music to it, you and your kids can have fun and exercise at the same time. In fact, you could stop cleaning for 20 minutes and dance to the music. This is a wonderful cardiovascular exercise the kids will definitely...

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Charles Waring: BSA Trustee

Charles Waring (c. 1827-1887) was born in Eccleshall, Yorkshire. He had at least two brothers, William (born c. 1821) and Henry (born c. 1823). By 1841 Charles was living in Micklegate, York and describing himself as a 'civil engineer'. The brothers formed a company (Waring Brothers) working on railway contracts.In 1853 Messrs Waring Brothers and Shaw were working in the Central Peninsular Railway...

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Honorary Treasurers of the BSA

The founding Honorary Treasurer for the BSA was Walter Leaf (1852-1927), a banker in the City of London. He resigned in 1906 to become a Trustee in place of Sir Richard Jebb who died in December 1905.Leaf's place was taken by Vincent W. Yorke (1869-1957), a former student of the BSA (1892/93, 1893/94), a director of National Provident Institution, and subsequently chairman of the Mexican Railway...

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Season 4 Photo Journals

Season 4 RouteIndonesia to Thailand Sailing Australia Driving and Sail...

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Trustees of the BSA

The three founding Trustees of the BSA were:(Sir) James Tynte Agg-Gardner, MP (1846-1928): Harrow; Trinity College, Cambridge. Chairman of the Cheltenham Original Brewery Company Ltd. Returned as Conservative MP for Cheltenham in 1885.Pandeli Ralli (1845-1928). A founding member of the member of the Hellenic Society. Returned as Liberal MP for Bridport (1875-80); and for Wallingford (1880-85). Resigned...

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Publishing the results of BSA projects

Articles on BSA projects were initially published in The Journal of Hellenic Studies and then in The Annual of the British School at Athens (from vol. 1 for the session 1894/95). Reports on major projects (Megalopolis, Phylakopi and Sparta) then appeared as Supplementary Papers for the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies:Gardner, E. A., W. Loring, G. C. Richards, W. J. Woodhouse, and R....

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Staff at the British Legation (1881-1918)

The British Ministers in Athens were a welcome support for the School:Sir (Francis) Clare Ford (March 1881-December 1884)Sir Horace Rumbold (1884-88)Sir Edmund (John) Monson (1888-92)Sir Edwin (Henry) Egerton (1841-1916) (1892-1903). Son of the Rev. Thomas Egerton of Shropshire; nephew of the First Lord Egerton of Tatton; entered diplomatic service 1859; secretary to the British Legation in Buenos...

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