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He was the son of the Rev. William Miles Myres and his wife, Jane Linton, and was educated at [[Winchester College]]. He graduated B.A. at [[New College, Oxford]] in 1892.<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=John|last=Boardman|title=Myres, Sir John Linton|id=35180}}</ref> At the same year he was a Craven Fellow at the [[British School at Athens]] with which he excavated at the Minoan sanctuary of [[Petsofas]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Dunbabin|first=T. J.|date=1954|title=Obituary Sir John Myres: 1869-1954|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30097000|journal=The Annual of the British School at Athens|volume=49|pages=311–312|doi=10.1017/S0068245400012818|jstor=30097000|issn=0068-2454|doi-access=free}}</ref> Myres became the first [[Wykeham Professor of Ancient History]], at the [[University of Oxford]], in 1910, having been [[Gladstone Professor of Greek]] and Lecturer in Ancient Geography, [[University of Liverpool]] from 1907.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=MYRES, John Linton|magazine=The International Who's Who in the World|year=1912|page=801|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I-wRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA801}}</ref> He contributed to the British [[Naval Intelligence Handbooks|''Naval Intelligence Division Geographical Handbook Series'']] that was published during the Second World War, and to the noted [[11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica|11th edition of the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'']] (1910–1911).
He was the son of the Rev. William Miles Myres and his wife, Jane Linton, and was educated at [[Winchester College]]. He graduated B.A. at [[New College, Oxford]] in 1892.<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=John|last=Boardman|title=Myres, Sir John Linton|id=35180}}</ref> At the same year he was a Craven Fellow at the [[British School at Athens]] with which he excavated at the Minoan sanctuary of [[Petsofas]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Dunbabin|first=T. J.|date=1954|title=Obituary Sir John Myres: 1869-1954|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30097000|journal=The Annual of the British School at Athens|volume=49|pages=311–312|doi=10.1017/S0068245400012818|jstor=30097000|issn=0068-2454|doi-access=free}}</ref> Myres became the first [[Wykeham Professor of Ancient History]], at the [[University of Oxford]], in 1910, having been [[Gladstone Professor of Greek]] and Lecturer in Ancient Geography, [[University of Liverpool]] from 1907.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=MYRES, John Linton|magazine=The International Who's Who in the World|year=1912|page=801|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I-wRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA801}}</ref> He contributed to the British [[Naval Intelligence Handbooks|''Naval Intelligence Division Geographical Handbook Series'']] that was published during the Second World War, and to the noted [[11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica|11th edition of the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'']] (1910–1911).


Myers was also a member of the [[The Folklore Society|Folklore Society]] and served as its President between 1924 and 1926.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=March 1924|title=Minutes of Meetings|url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0015587X.1924.9719982|journal=Folklore|language=en|volume=35|issue=1|pages=1–7|doi=10.1080/0015587X.1924.9719982|issn=0015-587X}}</ref> Later he became president of the [[Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland|Royal Anthropological Institute]] between 1928 and 1931.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Braunholtz|first1=H. J.|last2=Firth|first2=Raymond|date=1939|title=88. J. L. Myres: Past President of the Royal Anthropological Institute; Editor of 'Man.'|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/2791529|journal=Man|volume=39|pages=97–98|doi=10.2307/2791529|jstor=2791529|issn=0025-1496}}</ref> And finally president of the Hellenic Society between 1935-1938.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=G.|first=D. H.|date=1954|title=J. L. Myres|journal=The Journal of Hellenic Studies|volume=74|pages=181–182|doi=10.1017/S0075426900079283|jstor=627568|issn=0075-4269|doi-access=free}}</ref> Additionally, he was the founder of the journal [[Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute|Man]] and its first editor from 1901-1903.<ref name=":0" /> His work in Cyprus spanned several decades, with the German archaeologist [[Max Ohnefalsch-Richter]] he published the first catalogue of the [[Cyprus Museum]]. In 1894 he participated in the excavations of the [[British Museum]] at [[Amathus]], he also excavated for the British School at Athens, with the support of the Cyprus Exploration Fund, various sites such as the Bronze Age site of Ayia Paraskevi, [[Kalopsida]], Laxia tou Riou and Kition. Myres gave his share of the finds to the University of Oxford where it forms the core of the Cypriot collection of the [[Ashmolean Museum]] .<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Brown|first=Ann|date=1986|title='I Propose to Begin at Gnossos': John Myres's Visit to Crete in 1893|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30102890|journal=The Annual of the British School at Athens|volume=81|pages=37–44|issn=0068-2454}}</ref> Myres Archive is located at the Ashmolean Museum.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.ashmolean.org/sites/default/files/ashmolean/documents/media/ar2008-10-high.pdf |title=Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology Oxford. Highlights of the Annual Report August 2008 - July 2010. |publisher=University of Oxford |year=2010 |isbn=978 1 85444 257 4 |pages=11-12}}</ref> Additionally, he conducted excavations at [[Lapithos]] in 1913 with [[Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton]]. Furthermore in 1914 he published a handbook of the [[Luigi Palma di Cesnola|Cesnola]] collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was an advisor during the drafting of the 1935 Antiquities Law and the setting up of the [[Department of Antiquities (Cyprus)|Department of Antiquities]].<ref name=":1" />
Myers was also a member of the [[The Folklore Society|Folklore Society]] and served as its President between 1924 and 1926.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=March 1924|title=Minutes of Meetings|url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0015587X.1924.9719982|journal=Folklore|language=en|volume=35|issue=1|pages=1–7|doi=10.1080/0015587X.1924.9719982|issn=0015-587X}}</ref> Later he became president of the [[Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland|Royal Anthropological Institute]] between 1928 and 1931.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Braunholtz|first1=H. J.|last2=Firth|first2=Raymond|date=1939|title=88. J. L. Myres: Past President of the Royal Anthropological Institute; Editor of 'Man.'|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/2791529|journal=Man|volume=39|pages=97–98|doi=10.2307/2791529|jstor=2791529|issn=0025-1496}}</ref> And finally president of the Hellenic Society between 1935-1938.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=G.|first=D. H.|date=1954|title=J. L. Myres|journal=The Journal of Hellenic Studies|volume=74|pages=181–182|doi=10.1017/S0075426900079283|jstor=627568|issn=0075-4269|doi-access=free}}</ref> Additionally, he was the founder of the journal [[Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute|Man]] and its first editor from 1901-1903.<ref name=":0" />
His work in Cyprus spanned several decades, with the German archaeologist [[Max Ohnefalsch-Richter]] he published the first catalogue of the [[Cyprus Museum]]. In 1894 he participated in the excavations of the [[British Museum]] at [[Amathus]], he also excavated for the British School at Athens, with the support of the Cyprus Exploration Fund, various sites such as the Bronze Age site of Ayia Paraskevi, [[Kalopsida]], Laxia tou Riou and Kition. Myres gave his share of the finds to the University of Oxford where it forms the core of the Cypriot collection of the [[Ashmolean Museum]] .<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Brown|first=Ann|date=1986|title='I Propose to Begin at Gnossos': John Myres's Visit to Crete in 1893|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30102890|journal=The Annual of the British School at Athens|volume=81|pages=37–44|issn=0068-2454}}</ref> Myres Archive is located at the Ashmolean Museum.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.ashmolean.org/sites/default/files/ashmolean/documents/media/ar2008-10-high.pdf |title=Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology Oxford. Highlights of the Annual Report August 2008 - July 2010. |publisher=University of Oxford |year=2010 |isbn=978 1 85444 257 4 |pages=11-12}}</ref>
Additionally, he conducted excavations at [[Lapithos]] in 1913 with [[Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton]]. Furthermore, in 1914, he published a handbook of the [[Luigi Palma di Cesnola|Cesnola]] collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was an advisor during the drafting of the 1935 Antiquities Law and the setting up of the [[Department of Antiquities (Cyprus)|Department of Antiquities]].<ref name=":1" />


According to [[Robert Ranulph Marett]],<ref>{{cite book|editor=Marett, R. R.|author=Evans, Arthur|author2=Lang, Andrew|author3=Murray, Gilbert|author4=Jevons, Frank Byron|author5=Myres, John Linton|author6=Fowler, William Warde|title=Anthropology and the Classics: Six lectures delivered before the University of Oxford|chapter=''Preface'' by R. R. Marett|publisher=Clarendon Press|year=1908|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FEoMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA4}}</ref>
According to [[Robert Ranulph Marett]],<ref>{{cite book|editor=Marett, R. R.|author=Evans, Arthur|author2=Lang, Andrew|author3=Murray, Gilbert|author4=Jevons, Frank Byron|author5=Myres, John Linton|author6=Fowler, William Warde|title=Anthropology and the Classics: Six lectures delivered before the University of Oxford|chapter=''Preface'' by R. R. Marett|publisher=Clarendon Press|year=1908|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FEoMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA4}}</ref>
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{{blockquote|Professor Myres, whilst he teaches Greek language and literature as the modern man would have them taught, and is a learned archaeologist to boot, yet can have no greater title to our respect than that, of many devoted helpers, he did the most to organize an effective school of Anthropology in the University of Oxford.}}
{{blockquote|Professor Myres, whilst he teaches Greek language and literature as the modern man would have them taught, and is a learned archaeologist to boot, yet can have no greater title to our respect than that, of many devoted helpers, he did the most to organize an effective school of Anthropology in the University of Oxford.}}


He was a major influence on the British-Australian archaeologist [[Vere Gordon Childe]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Vere Gordon Childe {{!}} Encyclopedia.com|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/social-sciences-and-law/archaeology-biographies/vere-gordon-childe|access-date=2021-01-14|website=www.encyclopedia.com}}</ref>
He was a major influence on the British-Australian archaeologist [[Vere Gordon Childe]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Vere Gordon Childe {{!}} Encyclopedia.com|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/social-sciences-and-law/archaeology-biographies/vere-gordon-childe|access-date=14 January 2021|website=encyclopedia.com}}</ref>


At Oxford Myres worked for the Director of [[Naval Intelligence Division (United Kingdom)|Naval Intelligence]].<ref>{{Cite journal|date=1947|title=War Service of Students of the School, 1939-1945|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30096718|journal=The Annual of the British School at Athens|volume=42|pages=ix-xv}}</ref>
At Oxford, Myres worked for the Director of [[Naval Intelligence Division (United Kingdom)|Naval Intelligence]].<ref>{{Cite journal|date=1947|title=War Service of Students of the School, 1939-1945|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30096718|journal=The Annual of the British School at Athens|volume=42|pages=ix-xv}}</ref>


==Works==
==Works==

Revision as of 04:54, 2 December 2022

For his son, John Nowell Linton Myres, also a British archaeologist, see Nowell Myres. For the British radio executive, consultant and presenter, see John Myers (radio executive).

Sir John Linton Myres Kt OBE FBA FRAI (3 July 1869 in Preston – 6 March 1954 in Oxford) was a British archaeologist and academic, who conducted excavations in Cyprus in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[1]

Life

He was the son of the Rev. William Miles Myres and his wife, Jane Linton, and was educated at Winchester College. He graduated B.A. at New College, Oxford in 1892.[2] At the same year he was a Craven Fellow at the British School at Athens with which he excavated at the Minoan sanctuary of Petsofas.[3] Myres became the first Wykeham Professor of Ancient History, at the University of Oxford, in 1910, having been Gladstone Professor of Greek and Lecturer in Ancient Geography, University of Liverpool from 1907.[4] He contributed to the British Naval Intelligence Division Geographical Handbook Series that was published during the Second World War, and to the noted 11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1910–1911).

Myers was also a member of the Folklore Society and served as its President between 1924 and 1926.[5] Later he became president of the Royal Anthropological Institute between 1928 and 1931.[6] And finally president of the Hellenic Society between 1935-1938.[7] Additionally, he was the founder of the journal Man and its first editor from 1901-1903.[7]

His work in Cyprus spanned several decades, with the German archaeologist Max Ohnefalsch-Richter he published the first catalogue of the Cyprus Museum. In 1894 he participated in the excavations of the British Museum at Amathus, he also excavated for the British School at Athens, with the support of the Cyprus Exploration Fund, various sites such as the Bronze Age site of Ayia Paraskevi, Kalopsida, Laxia tou Riou and Kition. Myres gave his share of the finds to the University of Oxford where it forms the core of the Cypriot collection of the Ashmolean Museum .[8] Myres Archive is located at the Ashmolean Museum.[9]

Additionally, he conducted excavations at Lapithos in 1913 with Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton. Furthermore, in 1914, he published a handbook of the Cesnola collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was an advisor during the drafting of the 1935 Antiquities Law and the setting up of the Department of Antiquities.[8]

According to Robert Ranulph Marett,[10]

Professor Myres, whilst he teaches Greek language and literature as the modern man would have them taught, and is a learned archaeologist to boot, yet can have no greater title to our respect than that, of many devoted helpers, he did the most to organize an effective school of Anthropology in the University of Oxford.

He was a major influence on the British-Australian archaeologist Vere Gordon Childe.[11]

At Oxford, Myres worked for the Director of Naval Intelligence.[12]

Works

References

  1. ^ "MYRES, John Linton". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1285.
  2. ^ Boardman, John. "Myres, Sir John Linton". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35180. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ Dunbabin, T. J. (1954). "Obituary Sir John Myres: 1869-1954". The Annual of the British School at Athens. 49: 311–312. doi:10.1017/S0068245400012818. ISSN 0068-2454. JSTOR 30097000.
  4. ^ "MYRES, John Linton". The International Who's Who in the World. 1912. p. 801.
  5. ^ "Minutes of Meetings". Folklore. 35 (1): 1–7. March 1924. doi:10.1080/0015587X.1924.9719982. ISSN 0015-587X.
  6. ^ Braunholtz, H. J.; Firth, Raymond (1939). "88. J. L. Myres: Past President of the Royal Anthropological Institute; Editor of 'Man.'". Man. 39: 97–98. doi:10.2307/2791529. ISSN 0025-1496. JSTOR 2791529.
  7. ^ a b G., D. H. (1954). "J. L. Myres". The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 74: 181–182. doi:10.1017/S0075426900079283. ISSN 0075-4269. JSTOR 627568.
  8. ^ a b Brown, Ann (1986). "'I Propose to Begin at Gnossos': John Myres's Visit to Crete in 1893". The Annual of the British School at Athens. 81: 37–44. ISSN 0068-2454.
  9. ^ Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology Oxford. Highlights of the Annual Report August 2008 - July 2010 (PDF). University of Oxford. 2010. pp. 11–12. ISBN 978 1 85444 257 4.
  10. ^ Evans, Arthur; Lang, Andrew; Murray, Gilbert; Jevons, Frank Byron; Myres, John Linton; Fowler, William Warde (1908). "Preface by R. R. Marett". In Marett, R. R. (ed.). Anthropology and the Classics: Six lectures delivered before the University of Oxford. Clarendon Press.
  11. ^ "Vere Gordon Childe | Encyclopedia.com". encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
  12. ^ "War Service of Students of the School, 1939-1945". The Annual of the British School at Athens. 42: ix–xv. 1947.
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