BSA Students and St Andrews

Only a small proportion of students admitted to the BSA had studied in Scotland. There was a single student from St Andrews. Mary Hamilton, originally from Dundee, graduated from St Andrews in Classics in 1902, and subsequently held a Research Fellowship under the Carnegie Trust (1903/04). This resulted in her study of Incubation, or, the cure of disease in pagan temples and Christian churches (1906) [WorldCat]. She was formally admitted as a student to the BSA in 1905/06 and 1906/07; in 1905 she was also admitted to the British School at Rome.

Three former students of the BSA were lecturers in St Andrews:

• William John Woodhouse (1866-1937) was lecturer in Ancient History and Political Philosophy (1900). He had been admitted as a student at the BSA in 1889/90 and had subsequently been an assistant lecturer at Bangor (1896-99). In 1901 he moved to Sydney to be professor of Greek.
• Adolph Paul Oppé (1878-1957) was a lecturer in Greek from 1902 immediately after his year in Athens (1901/02). In 1904 he was appointed lecturer in Ancient History at Edinburgh.
• Alan John Bayard Wace (1879-1957) was appointed lecturer in Ancient History and Archaeology (1912-14) after a long-period as a student in Athens (first admitted 1902/03) and librarian for the British School at Rome (1905/06). He left St Andrews to become director of the BSA.
  

The London Secretary (1886-1920)

The first Honorary Secretary of the BSA was George Augustin Macmillan (1855-1936) who served for ten years (1886-97). He held this alongside the same position for the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. (He subsequently became a Trustee in 1900).

Macmillan was replaced by William Loring (1865-1915), a former student of the School (Cambridge Studentship, Craven Studentship), a member of the Managing Committee, a former Fellow of King's College, Cambridge (1891-97), and Examiner for the Board of Education (1894-1903). During his leave of absence serving in the Boer War (1899-1901; corporal, 19th [Lothians and Berwickshire] Company, Imperial Yeomanry, 1900-1 (D.C.M.); Lieutenant in the Scottish Horse, 1901-2), Macmillan deputised for him. Loring was also the Honorary Secretary for the British School at Rome. He served as Secretary for the BSA until 1903 when he was appointed Director of Education under the West Riding County Council (1903-5).

Loring's place was taken by John ff. Baker Penoyre (1870-1954) who had been a student at Keble College, Oxford, an assistant master at Chigwell School (1896-1900), and had then been admitted to the BSA in 1900/01; he also acted as an extension lecturer on classical art and archaeology at Oxford University. The position of Secretary also attracted a salary of £40 per year. Like Loring he acted as Secretary to the British School at Rome (1904-12). In 1904 he was appointed Secretary for the Hellenic Society at £80 per year (where he also served as Librarian at £60 per year). In 1906/07, 1907/08 Penoyre was granted a year's leave of absence for 'travel and research', and was re-admitted to the BSA. He was replaced by Katherine Raleigh (the translator of The Gods of Olympus [1892]).

From 1911 (to 1920) Caroline Amy Hutton, another former student (1896/97), served as acting Honorary Secretary. She had been serving as joint editor of the Annual from 1906.

Associates of the School (1896-1913)

Associates were first elected in 1896.

XXII. The Managing Committee may elect as Associates of the School any persons actively engaged in study or exploration in Greek lands; and may also elect as honorary members such persons as they may from time to time think desirable. (1899/1900)

Associates include:

• 1895/96: Rev. Alfred Hamilton Cruikshank (1862-1927). Assistant Master at Winchester (1894-1910); Durham.
  
• 1895/96: Professor John Bagnell Bury (1861-1927). Trinity College, Dublin.
  
• 1895/96: (Sir) Arthur J. Evans (1851-1941). Keeper, The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
  
• 1896/97: Ambrose Poynter (1867-1923). Eton. Royal Academy.
  
• 1896/97: John Ellingham Brooks (1863-1929). Peterhouse, Cambridge. Former student.
  
• 1896/97: John Linton Myres (1869-1954). Student of Christ Church, Oxford. Former student.
• 1897/98: Professor Ernest A. Gardner (1862-1939). University College London. Former Director.
• 1902: Louisa Pesel (c. 1870-1947). Directrice of the Royal Hellenic School of Needlwork and Laces at Athens.
  
• 1902: John Foster Crace (d. 1960). Classical master at Eton (1901-35).
  
• 1903: Mona Wilson (1872-1954). Newnham College, Cambridge (1892-96).
  
• 1903: J.S. Carter
• 1903: B. Townsend
• 1903: (Sir) Augustus Moore Daniel (1866-1950). Trinity College, Cambridge. Assistant Director of the British School at Rome; Director of the National Gallery.
  
• 1906: H.W. Allen
• 1906: William Miller (1864-1945). Hertford College, Oxford. Journalist and historian.
  
• 1906: George Kennedy
• 1910: (Sir) Alfred Eckhard Zimmern (1879-1957). Winchester; New College, Oxford. Fellow and tutor of New College (1904-09); Inspector, Board of Education (1912-15).
  
• 1912: Mary B. Negreponte
• 1913: C.J. Ellingham. St John's College, Oxford.
  
• 1913: Capt. H.M. Greaves, R.A. Keble College, Oxford.
  

Love at the BSA

Today is Valentine's day .... so here are some of the romances at the BSA (and BSR) before the First World War.

• Margery Katharine Daniel (1880-1960; Newnham College; BSA 1903/04) married Augustus Moore Daniel (1866-1950; associate student of the BSA; assistant director of the BSR), at All Saints, Ennismore Gardens, Tuesday 23 August 1904
• Mary Hamilton (St Andrews; BSA 1905/06, 1906/07) married Guy Dickins (1881-1915; New College; BSA 1904/05, 1905/06, 1906/07, 1907/08, 1908/09, 1912/13)
  
• Margaret Masson Hardie (1885-1948; Aberdeen; Newnham College; BSA 1911/12) married Frederick William Hasluck (1878-1920; King's College; BSA 1901-06; Assistant Director and Librarian 1906-15), at Pluscarden, NB, 26 September 1912
  
• Mary N.L. Taylor (Newnham College; BSA 1913/14) married Harold Chalton Bradshaw (BSR, Rome Scholar in Fine Arts, 1913), at Kings Norton, 1918
  

The monastery of Voulkano, Mount Ithome © David Gill

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)
  

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.