BSA Managing Committee (1886-1918)

The original committee consisted of the following 'five members ... appointed by the general body of subscribers':

• Professor Percy Gardner (1846-1937)
• John Gennadius (the Greek Minister in London)
• Professor Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1841-1905)
• Sir Frederic Leighton (1830-96)
  
• Mr John Edwin Sandys (1844-1922)

There were also:

• The Trustees
• The Treasurer
• The Honorary Secretary
• 'members to be nominated by each corporate body subscribing not less than £50 per annum towards the maintenance of the School' (David Binning Monro (1836-1905), Oxford; Sidney Colvin (1845-1927), Hellenic Society)
  

Subsequently the Managing Committee consisted of the following elements:

Appointed by the University of Oxford:

• David Binning Monro (1836-1905), Provost of Oriel College. (1895/96, 1896/97, 1897/98, 1898/99, 1900/01, 1901/02, 1903/04, 1904/05)
• Professor Percy Gardner (1846-1937). (1905/06, 1909/10, 1910/11, 1911/12, 1912/13, 1913/14, 1914/15, 1916/17, 1917/18)

Appointed by the University of Cambridge (from 1896):

• Professor (Sir) William Ridgeway (1858-1926). (1896/97, 1897/98, 1898/99, 1900/01, 1901/02, 1903/04).
• Professor (Sir) John Edwin Sandys (1844-1922). (1904/05, 1905/06, 1909/10, 1910/11, 1911/12, 1912/13, 1913/14, 1914/15, 1915/16, 1916/17, 1917/18).
  

Appointed by the Hellenic Society:

• (Sir) Sidney Colvin (1845-1927). (1895/96, 1896/97, 1897/98, 1898/99, 1899/1900, 1900/01, 1901/02, 1903/04, 1904/05, 1905/06).
• Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928). (1909/10, 1910/11, 1911/12, 1912/13, 1913/14, 1914/15, 1915/16, 1916/17, 1917/18).
  

Appointed by the subscribers (former Directors):

• Francis Cranmer Penrose (1817-1903). Director: 1886/87. (1895/96, 1896/97, 1897/98, 1898/99, 1899/1900, 1900/01, 1901/02).
• Ernest Arthur Gardner (1862-1939). Student: 1886/87; Director: 1887-1895. (1897/98, replacing Bent; 1898/99, 1899/1900, 1900/01, 1901/02, 1903/04, 1904/05, 1905/06, 1909/10, 1910/11, 1911/12, 1912/13, 1913/14, 1914/15, 1915/16, 1916/17, 1917/18).
• (Sir) Cecil Harcourt Smith (1859-1944). Director: 1895-97. (1897/98, 1898/99, 1899/1900, 1900/01, 1901/02, 1903/04, 1904/05, 1905/06, 1909/10, 1910/11, 1911/12, 1912/13, 1913/14, 1914/15, 1915/16, 1916/17, 1917/18).
• David George Hogarth (1862-1927). Student: 1886/87; Director: 1897-1900. (1896/97, 1900/01, 1901/02, 1903/04, 1904/05, 1905/06, 1909/10, 1910/11, 1911/12, 1912/13, 1913/14, 1914/15, 1915/16, 1916/17, 1917/18).
• Professor Robert Carr Bosanquet (1871-1935). Student: 1892/93, 1894-97; Assistant Director: 1899/1900; Director: 1900-06. (1909/10, 1910/11, 1911/12, 1912/13, 1913/14, 1914/15, 1915/16, 1916/17, 1917/18).
• Richard Macgillivray Dawkins (1871-1955). Student: 1902-05; Director: 1906-14. (1914/15, 1915/16, 1916/17, 1917/18).

Appointed by the subscribers (excluding former Directors):

• Professor (Sir) Thomas Clifford Allbutt (1836-1925), MD, FRS. (1895/96)
• James Theodore Bent (1852-97). (1896/97)
• (Sir) Reginald Theodore Blomfield (1856-1942). (1903/04, 1904/05, 1905/06)
• John Percival Droop (1882-1963). Student: 1905-09, 1910/11, 1912-14. (1916/17, 1917/18)
• Sir Francis Elliot, KCMG. (1917/18)
  
• (Sir) Arthur John Evans (1851-1941). (1900/01, 1901/02, 1903/04, 1904/05, 1905/06, 1909/10, 1910/11, 1911/12, 1912/13, 1913/14, 1914/15, 1915/16, 1916/17, 1917/18)
• Theodore Fyfe (1875-1945). Student: 1899/1900. (1909/10, 1910/11, 1911/12, 1912/13, 1913/14)
• Percy Gardner (1846-1937). (1900/01, 1901/02, 1903/04, 1904/05)
• Walter Sykes George (1881-1962). Student: 1906/07, 1908-10, 1912/13. (1914/15)
• Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928). (1895/96, 1896/97, 1897/98, 1898/99, 1899/1900, 1900/01, 1901/02, 1903/04, 1904/05, 1905/06)
• Francis John Haverfield (1860-1919). (1900/01, 1901/02)
• Caroline Amy Hutton (c. 1861-1931). Student: 1896/97. (1909/10, 1910/11, 1911/12)
• Harry Herbert Jewell (1882-1974). Student: 1909/10. (1915/16)
• William Loring (1865-1915). Student: 1889-93. (1895/96, 1896/97, 1905/06, 1909/10)
• George Augustin Macmillan (1855-1936). London secretary of the BSA 1886-98. (1897/98, 1898/99, 1899/1900)
  
• Robert John Grote Mayor (1869-1947). Student: 1892/93. (1903/04, 1904/05, 1905/06, 1909/10, 1910/11, 1911/12)
  
• Professor (Sir) John Linton Myres (1869-1954). Student: 1892-95. (1895/96, 1896/97, 1897/98, 1898/99, 1899/1900, 1900/01, 1901/02, 1903/04, 1904/05, 1905/06, 1909/10, 1910/11, 1911/12, 1912/13, 1913/14, 1914/15, 1915/16, 1916/17, 1917/18)
• Professor Henry Francis Pelham (1846-1907). (1895/96, 1896/97, 1897/98, 1898/99, 1899/1900, 1900/01, 1901/02, 1903/04)
• Professor James Smith Reid (1846-1926). (1900/01, 1901/02, 1903/04, 1904/05, 1905/06, 1909/10)
  
• (Sir) John Edwin Sandys (1844-1922). (1895/96, 1896/97, 1897/98, 1898/99, 1899/1900)
• Marcus Niebuhr Tod (1878-1974). Student: 1901/02; Assistant Director: 1902-04. (1909/10, 1910/11, 1911/12, 1912/13, 1913/14, 1914/15, 1915/16, 1916/17, 1917/18)
• Alan John Bayard Wace (1879-1957). Student: 1902-11; Director: 1914-23. (1910/11, 1911/12, 1912/13, 1913/14)
• Professor (Sir) Charles Waldstein (Walston) (1856-1927). (1895/96, 1896/97, 1897/98, 1898/99, 1899/1900, 1900/01, 1901/02, 1903/04, 1904/05, 1905/06, 1909/10, 1910/11, 1911/12, 1912/13, 1913/14, 1914/15, 1915/16, 1916/17, 1917/18)
• Leonard Whibley (1863-1941). (1910/11, 1911/12, 1912/13, 1913/14, 1914/15, 1915/16, 1916/17, 1917/18)
• Vincent Yorke. (1904/05)
• (Sir) Alfred Eckhard Zimmern (1879-1957). (1912/13, 1913/14, 1914/15, 1915/16, 1916/17, 1917/18)

Ex officio joint editor of the Annual:

• Caroline Amy Hutton (c. 1861-1931). (1912/13, 1913/14, 1914/15, 1915/16)

Rules and Regulations (1895/96):

VI. A corporate body subscribing not less than £50 a year, for a term of years, shall, during that term, have the right to nominate a member of the Managing Committee.
XIII. The Managing Committee shall consist of the following:-
(1) The Trustees of the School.
(2) The Treasurer and Secretary of the School.
(3) Nine Members elected by the Subscribers at the annual meetings. Of these, three shall retire in each year, at first by lot, afterwards by rotation. Members retiring are eligible for re-election.
(4) The members nominated by corporate bodies under Article VI.

Amendment (by 1903/04):

(3) Twelve Members elected by the Subscribers at the annual meetings. Of these, four shall retire in each year, at first by lot, afterwards by rotation. Members retiring are eligible for re-election.

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BSA Students and London University

Ernest Gardner resigned as the BSA director to because the Yates professor of Archaeology at University College (1896). He later served as public orator for the University of London (1910-32).

Three other former BSA students were appointed to positions in London. Frank Earp (BSA 1896/97) was appointed lecturer in Classics at East London College (1905-30). He was subsequently professor of Classics and fellow of Queen Mary College (1930-36). John K. Fotheringham (BSA 1898/99) was appointed lecturer in Classical Literature at King's College in 1904, lecturer in Ancient History in 1909 and promoted to reader in 1912. Max Cary (BSA 1903/04) moved from Birmingham in 1908 to be reader in Ancient History attached to University College and Bedford College; he was subsequently professor of Ancient History (1937-46).

After the First World War several former BSA students held positions in London. Two were at King’s College. Max Laistner (BSA 1912-14), who had lectured at Birmingham and Belfast, moved from Manchester to be Reader in Ancient History (1921-25). Edwyn R. Bevan (BSA 1893/94) was lecturer in Hellenistic History and Literature (1922-33). In 1928 William R. Halliday (BSA 1910/11, 1912/13), resigned as professor of Ancient History at Liverpool, to become Principal of King’s College (1928-33); he was also Deputy Vice-Chancellor, London University (1932).

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BSA Students and Manchester University

The first BSA student in Manchester was J.H. Hopkinson who moved from Birmingham in 1904 to become lecturer in classical archaeology at Victoria University (1904-14). He was also the warden of Hulme Hall, one of the halls of residence built in 1907. Hopkinson had strong links with Manchester as his father Professor (Sir) Alfred Hopkinson had been principal of Owens College (from 1898), and then a vice-chancellor of the newly formed Victoria University (1900-1913). The department was strengthened in 1906 by the appointment of Alexander C.B. Brown as assistant lecturer in classics (1906-08). He had just completed a year at the BSA.

In 1908 Ronald Montagu Burrows (1867-1920), who had excavated in Greece with Percy N. Ure at Rhitsona, was appointed Hulme Professor of Greek. He resigned in 1913 to become principal of King’s College, London, and was replaced by William M. Calder (1881-1960) who had been admitted as a student at the BSA (1907/08) and had subsequently studied in Berlin and Paris. Calder, who had studied with William Ramsay at Aberdeen before moving to Christ Church, Oxford (see 'Scotland and the BSA'), was involved with Ramsay’s epigraphic surveys in Asia Minor. He also held the position of lecturer in Christian epigraphy at Manchester. In 1930 he moved to Edinburgh as professor of Greek. T. Eric Peet also moved to Manchester in 1913 as lecturer in Egyptology (1913-23). J.H. Hopkinson resigned in 1914 and was ordained deacon in the Church of England serving a first curacy in Colne (1914).

After the First World War the department was joined by Max Laistner as assistant lecturer in Classics (July 1919-21). He had been at the BSA (1912-14) and then lectured at Birmingham (1914) and Belfast (1915) before war service in the Middlesex Regiment and the Ministry of Labour.

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BSA Students and Liverpool University

The University College of Liverpool was founded in 1881, and received its university charter in 1903. John Garstang (1876-1956), who had studied under Francis J. Haverfield in Oxford and excavated in Egypt with Flinders Petrie, was appointed honorary reader in Egyptology at Liverpool in 1902. Garstang then worked towards the foundation of the Institute of Archaeology (1904). Robert C. Bosanquet, director of the BSA, was appointed professor of classical archaeology in 1906.

The Greek archaeology interests of the department were strengthened in 1907 with the appointment of John L. Myres as Gladstone professor of Greek and lecturer in Ancient Geography, though his stay was short as he returned to Oxford in 1910. He was replaced by Arnold W. Gomme who held the position of assistant lecturer in Classics (1910-11). He had a strong interest in topography, filling a gap left by Myres, but he moved to Glasgow after a year. Gomme in turn was replaced by Henry A. Ormerod, who served as assistant lecturer in Greek (1911-23). During this time he started his work on piracy in the ancient world. Arthur M. Woodward was appointed assistant lecturer in 1911 after serving as Assistant Director in Athens (1909/10). However after a year he moved to Leeds as Reader, no doubt reflecting his expertise in the field of epigraphy. A further BSA student, William R. Halliday, joined the university in 1914 as the Rathbone professor of Ancient History (1914-28).

James George Frazer (BSA 1889/90) was appointed professor of Social Anthropology in 1908.

Bosanquet left Liverpool in 1920 to make way for men returning from the First World War. He was succeeded by another BSA student, John P. Droop. who held the Charles W. Jones Professor of Classical Archaeology (1921-48). Droop had excavated with Bosanquet in Greece, and also in Egypt at Abydos. A further former BSA student was T. Eric Peet who arrived as the Brunner professor of Egyptology (1920-33). There was further change in 1923 when Ormerod left Liverpool to become professor of Classics at Leeds. He returned to Liverpool in 1928 as the Rathbone professor of Ancient History (1928-51) when Halliday left.

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BSA Students and Birmingham University

Classics had been taught at Mason College, Birmingham from at least 1882 when Edward A. Sonnenschein (1851-1929) was appointed professor of Greek and Latin in 1882. Mason University College was created by Act of Parliament in 1897, and soon gained full university status. By late 1898 it was proposed that the classics staff should consist of:

Greek, one professor; Latin, one professor; Greek and Latin, one lecturer.

One of the first assistant lecturers at Mason University College was Frederick A.C. Morrison who had just completed his time as a student in Greece (1896/97). He died in July 1899, and was replaced by another BSA student, John W. Crowfoot, as classical lecturer (1899-1900). Crowfoot had been a contemporary of Morrison in Greece and had stayed for an additional year. He left in 1900 to become Assistant Master, Tewfikian School, Ministry of Education, Cairo (1901-03).

As the University became established, Sonnenschein was appointed the first Dean of the Faculty of Arts and revised the curriculum for classics. The department was joined in 1901 by John Henry Hopkinson as lecturer in Greek (1901-04). He had just completed two years in Athens, one as Craven University Fellow. His father, Professor Alfred Hopkinson, was at the time vice-chancellor of Victoria University in Manchester (and had previously been principal of Owens College). Hopkinson left in 1904 to become a lecturer in classical archaeology at Manchester, and he was replaced as lecturer in Greek in 1905 by Max O.B. Caspari (Max Cary) who had been at the BSA (1903/04) and had then taken a diploma in education at Liverpool (1905). Cary left for a Readership in Ancient History in London in 1908. A further former BSA student to join the department was Max Ludwig Wolfram Laistner as assistant lecturer in classics (1914). He left to fill the post in Belfast left vacant by the death of K.T. Frost, another former BSA student, on the Western Front.

Henry J.W. Tillyard, another BSA student, was appointed to the chair of Russian (1921-26).

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BSA and Magdalen College

Magdalen College and New College were the best represented Oxford college among students at the BSA.

Magdalen students included:

• David George Hogarth (1862-1927). Winchester. Demy 1881-85; Classical mods. 1st 1882; Lit. Hum. 1st 1885. BSA 1886/87. Director 1897-1900.
• John Frederick Randall Stainer (1866-1939). Winchester. Exhibitioner; Classical mods. 1st 1887; Lit. Hum. 2nd 1889. BSA 1889/90.
• Charles Cuthbert Inge (1868-1957). Eton. Demy 1887-92; Classical mods. 1st 1889; Lit. Hum. 2nd. BSA 1891/92.
• Oswald Hutton Parry (1868-1936). Charterhouse. Exhibitioner; Classical mods. 2nd 1889; Lit. Hum. 3rd 1891. BSA 1889/90.
• John George Smith (Piddington) (1869-not known). Eton. Commoner; Classical mods. 2nd 1890; Lit. Hum. 3rd 1892. BSA 1891/92; 1895/96 (as assistant to the Director).
• Edward Barclay Hoare (1872-1943). Harrow. Commoner 1890-94. BA 1894. BSA 1897/98 (Architectural Studentship).
• Francis Bertram Welch (1876-1950). Haileybury; Magdalen College School. Exhibitioner; Classical mods. 1st 1896; Lit. Hum. 2nd 1898. BSA 1898/99, 1899/1900.
• Charles Harry Clinton Pirie-Gordon (1883-1969). Harrow. Commoner (1902-05); Modern History 3rd 1905. BSA 1907/08.
• Arthur Maurice Woodward (1883-1973). Shrewsbury. Demy; Classical mods. 2nd 1904; Lit. Hum. 2nd 1906. BSA 1906/07, 1907/08, 1908/09; Assistant Director 1909/10.

Senior Demy
John Knight Fotheringham (1874-1936). Merton College. Senior Demy 1898-1902. BSA 1898/99.

Fellow
David George Hogarth (1862-1927). Also Tutor. 1886-93.
John Linton Myres (1869-1954). 1892-94. BSA 1892/93, 1893/94, 1894/95.

Research Fellow
John Knight Fotheringham (1874-1936). 1909-16. (Also Lecturer and Reader at King's College, London.)

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BSA and New College

One of the best represented Oxford College among the BSA students was New College. It should be noted that seven of these students had been at Winchester. All but Awdry were admitted (or were due to be admitted in the case of Moss-Blundell) within a year of two of completing their studies at Oxford. Cheesman and Halliday (Hoffmeister) were both elected Fellows of New College.

• Herbert Awdry (1851-1909). Winchester. Matric. 1870; Lit. Hum. 2nd 1874; MA 1877. Assistant Master at Wellington College (1881-1908); admitted BSA 1894/95.
• John Linton Myres (1869-1954). Winchester. Classical mods 1st; Lit. Hum. 1st 1892. BSA 1892/93, 1893/94, 1894/95. Wykeham Professor of Ancient History and Fellow of New College (1910-39)
• Edwyn Robert Bevan (1870-1943). Monkton Combe. Open classical scholarship; Classical mods 1st 1890; Lit. Hum. 1892. BSA 1893/94.
• Adolph Paul Oppé (1878-1957). Charterhouse. Exhibitioner; Classical mods 1st 1899; Lit. Hum. 1901. BSA 1901/02.
• Alexander Cradock Bolney Brown (1882-1942). Winchester. Winchester Scholar 1901; Classical mods 1st 1903; Lit. Hum. 2nd 1905. BSA 1905/06.
• Guy Dickins (1881-1916). Winchester. Scholar 1900; Classical mods 2nd 1902; Lit. Hum. 1st 1904. BSA 1904/05; 1905/06 (School Student); 1906/07; 1907/08, 1908/09; 1912/13.
• George Leonard Cheesman (1884-1915). Winchester. Winchester Scholar 1903; Classical mods 1st 1905; Lit. Hum. 1st 1907. BSA 1908/09. Fellow of New College (1908).
• William Reginald Halliday (Hoffmeister) (1886-1966). Winchester. Winchester Scholar 1905; Lit. Hum. 1st 1909. BSA 1910/11; 1912/13. Fellow of New College (1912); Lecturer in Greek History and Archaeology, University of Glasgow (1912-14).
• Cyril Bertram Moss-Blundell (1891-1915). Winchester. Scholarship 1910; Classical mods 1st 1912; Lit. Hum. 1st. 1914. BSA student elect 1914/15.

Only Moss-Blundell overlapped with John Linton Myres (1869-1954), Wykeham Professor of Ancient History and Fellow of New College (1910-39).

After the First World War Stanley Casson (1889-1944), a former BSA student, was elected Fellow of New College (1920).

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BSA and the British School at Rome

Students at the BSA often combined part of the year at the British School at Rome.

Cambridge students:

• Alan John Bayard Wace (BSR 1903/04)
• Mary Hamilton (BSR 1905)
• Henry Julius Wetenhall Tillyard (BSR 1905)
• Gisela Marie Augusta Richter (BSR 1906)
• John Percival Droop (BSR 1907)
• Arthur Charles Sheepshanks (BSR 1907)
• Wynfrid Laurence Henry Duckworth (BSA 1909)
• Sidney Wilson Grose (BSR 1910)
• Agnes Ethel Conway (BSR 1912)
• Mary N.L. Taylor (BSR 1913, 1914; Gilchrist Studentship 1914); married to Harold C. Bradshaw, Rome Scholar

Oxford students:

• Guy Dickins (BSR 1905)
• William Moir Calder (BSR 1907)
• Thomas Eric Peet (BSR 1909, Pelham Student)
• Norman Whatley (BSR 1910)
• Arnold Jospeh Toynbee (BSR 1911)

Other students:

• William Alexander Kirkwood (BSR 1904)
• Duncan Mackenzie
  

Architects:

• Frank George Orr (BSR 1904)
• W. Harvey (BSR 1908)
• Lionel Bailey Budden (1909)
• Harry Herbert Jewell (BSR 1910)
• George Esslemont Gordon Leith (BSR 1911, Herbert Baker Studentship)

Several former students of the BSA also held positions at the BSR:

• Henry Stuart-Jones was the second director Director of the BSR (1903-05)
• Alan John Bayard Wace was librarian of the BSR (1905/06).
• Augustus Moore Daniel (associate student of the BSA), was Assistant Director of the BSR (1906/07); he was married to Margery Katharine Welsh a former student of the BSA
  
• Eugenie Sellers-Strong was Assistant Director of the BSR (1909-25)
• William Loring was honorary secretary of the BSR (as well as the BSA)
• John Ff. Baker Penoyre, secretary to the BSR (1904-12) (as well as the BSA)
  

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Tracking Us...

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Oxford and the Managing Committee

The University of Oxford's nominee on the Managing committee was David Binning Monro (1836-1905), Provost of Oriel College (from 1882). On his death the nominee was Professor Percy Gardner (1846-1937) who held the Lincoln and Merton chair in Classical Archaeology (from 1887). Gardner had served on the original Managing Committee when he held the Disney chair of archaeology in Cambridge.

Those elected by the subscribers were:

• Professor Henry Francis Pelham (1846-1907) was the Camden Professor Ancient History (from 1889). Pelham's interest was in the work of the Asia Minor Exploration Fund though he supported the work of the School (and was later to be influential in the foundation of the British School at Rome).
• Professor (Sir) John Linton Myres (1869-1954) had been a student at the BSA (1892-95) alongside a fellowship at Magdalen College (1892-95). He returned to Oxford as a Student of Christ Church (1895-1907) and university lecturer in Classical Archaeology. After a time as professor in Liverpool (1907-10) Myres returned to Oxford as the Wykeham professor of Ancient History (1910-39).
• (Sir) Arthur John Evans (1851-1941) had been appointed Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in 1884. He had initiated the work at Knossos and was a key figure in the Cretan Exploration Fund.
• Francis John Haverfield (1860-1919) senior student and tutor at Christ Church. In 1907 he was elected Camden Professor of Ancient History.
  
• David George Hogarth (1862-1927) had been the first Oxford student at the BSA (1886/87). He had subsequently been Director of the BSA (1897-1900) and had worked with the Cretan Exploration Fund. In 1908 succeeded Evans as Keeepr of the Ashmolean Museum.
• Marcus Niebuhr Tod (1878-1974) was a student at the BSA (1901/02) and then Assistant Director (1902-04). He was elected a fellow of Oriel College in 1903 (though was allowed to remain in Greece) and became tutor in ancient history in 1905. In 1907 he was appointed university lecturer in Greek Epigraphy.
  

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