Alan Blakeway Explained

Alan Albert Antisdel Blakeway (1898 - 9 October 1936) was a British archaeologist who was director of the British School at Athens.

Early life

Alan Albert Antisdel Blakeway was born in 1898,^{[1] [2]} the eldest son of the venerable C.E. Blakeway archdeacon of Stafford.^[3]

Career

Blakeway was a master at Winchester College from 1924 to 1931.^[4] He was a fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford.^[5] He was appointed director of the British School at Athens in 1936 but died the same year.^{[1] [6]} He was replaced by G.M. Young.

Family

Blakeway married Alison Hope (later Mrs Antony Andrewes) in 1935.^[1]

Death

Blakeway died of blood poisoning at Winchester on 9 October 1936.^[7]

Selected publications

• "Prolegomena to the study of Greek commerce with Italy, Sicily, and France in the eighth and seventh centuries B.C.," Annual of the British School at Athens, 33, pp. 170–208.
• "Demaratus: A study in some aspects of the earliest Hellenisation of Latium and Etruria", Journal of Roman Studies, 1935.
• Lectures on early Greek history and the Peloponnesian League. Oxford, 1935.

See also

• Humfry Payne

Notes and References

1. Book: Berlin, Isaiah. Henry Hardy (Ed.). Flourishing: Letters 1928-1946. 2012. Random House. 978-1-4481-0478-9. 366–367.
2. Book: Dyson, Stephen L.. In Pursuit of Ancient Pasts: A History of Classical Archaeology in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. 2006. Yale University Press. New Haven. 0-300-13497-5. 195.
3. "Marriages". The Times, 12 November 1935, p. 17.
4. National Museum of Wales and Welsh Cultural Studies . 10.1038/138751d0 . Nature . 1936 . 138 . 3496 . 751–752 . 1936Natur.138T.751. .
5. "Mr. Alan Blakeway." The Times, 12 October 1936, p. 19.
6. "British Scholars in Athens", The Times, 14 October 1936, p. 15.
7. "Deaths", The Times, 12 October 1936, p. 1.