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).

John Pendlebury: The Rash Adventurer

The research of John Pendlebury (1904-41) bridged the gap between Bronze Age Crete and Egypt. He was educated at Winchester, and Pembroke College, Cambridge. Grundon's detailed study gives a view of research at the BSA during the 1920s and 1930s. It covers Pendlebury's key work on Crete and his excavations at Amarna. There is a detailed discussion of Pendlebury's role in the defence of Crete in 1941.

Grundon, I. 2007. The rash adventurer: a life of John Pendlebury. London: Libri. [Amazon] [WorldCat]

Winchester and the BSA

Former pupils of Winchester made a significant impact on the archaeology of the Mediterranean world in the period prior to the First World War. Three of the first four directors were educated there:

• Penrose, Francis Cranmer (1817–1903), director 1886-87
• Smith, Cecil Harcourt [later Sir Cecil Harcourt-Smith] (1859-1944), director 1895-97
• Hogarth, David George (1862-1927), director 1897-1900

Among the students of the BSA were:

• Herbert Awdry (1851-1909)
  
• John Frederick Randall Stainer (1866-1939), son of Sir John Stainer
• (Sir) John Linton Myres (1869-1954)
  
• Guy Dickins (1881-1916)
• Alexander Craddock Bolney Brown (1882-1942)
• George Leonard Cheesman (1884-1915)
• William Reginald Halliday (Hoffmeister) (1886-1966)
• Cyril Bertram Moss-Blundell (c. 1890-1915)
  

One of the masters at Winchester during this period (1894-1928) was Arthur George Bather (1868-1928). He had been educated at Rossall and King's College, Cambridge. He was admitted as a student to the BSA in 1889/90 (under Ernest Gardner), and held a series of studentships until 1894. Bather had been preceded by another former BSA student, Edward Ernest Sikes (1867-1940) who had been an assistant master in 1890-91.

Rev. Alfred Hamilton Cruikshank (1862-1927), an exact contemporary of Hogarth at Winchester, was an associate student of the BSA. He returned to Winchester (from Harrow) as an assistant master in 1894 (and chaplain from 1896); he left for Durham in 1910.

Other Wykehamist archaeologists of this era included Arthur Hamilton Smith (1860-1941), Keeper at the British Museum and later director of the British School at Rome; Francis John Haverfield (1860–1919), Camden professor of ancient history at Oxford; and Thomas Ashby (1874–1931), director of the British School at Rome.

Associates of the School

The first associates of the BSA were elected in 1896 during the directorship of Cecil Harcourt Smith. The purpose, according to the BSA's 'Rules and Regulations' (XXII, 1895/6), was for individuals who were 'actively engaged in study or exploration in Greek lands'.

Among them was the Rev. Alfred Hamilton Cruikshank (1862-1927), a younger contemporary of Harcourt Smith at Winchester; both were scholars. (Penrose, the first director, was also a Wykehamist.) Cruikshank subsequently went to New College, Oxford where he obtained a first in classics. After serving as tutor at New College (1889-91) he taught at Harrow (1891-94) before returning to Winchester in 1894 (and was chaplain from 1896). Cruikshank visited the Meteora during 1895/96 and published an account in the newly established Annual (A.H. Cruickshank [sic.], 'Meteora', Annual of the British School at Athens 2, 1895/6, 105-12). In 1910 Cruikshank left Winchester to hold the chair of Greek and Classical Literature at the University of Durham.

Two other scholars were elected Associates at the same time: Professor J.B. Bury of Trinity College, Dublin, and Arthur J. Evans, Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum. Both were later elected Honorary Students of the School.