Alan Blakeway

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 School from 1924 to 1931. He was a fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford.^[4] He was appointed director of the British School at Athens in 1936 but died the same year.^[1][5] 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.^[6]

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

References

1. Berlin, Isaiah; Henry Hardy (Ed.) (2012). Flourishing: Letters 1928-1946. Random House. pp. 366–367. ISBN 978-1-4481-0478-9.
2. Dyson, Stephen L. (2006). In Pursuit of Ancient Pasts: A History of Classical Archaeology in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 195. ISBN 0-300-13497-5.
3. "Marriages". The Times, 12 November 1935, p. 17.
4. "Mr. Alan Blakeway." The Times, 12 October 1936, p. 19.
5. "British Scholars in Athens", The Times, 14 October 1936, p. 15.
6. "Deaths", The Times, 12 October 1936, p. 1.