Richard MacGillivray Dawkins
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Born | October 24, 1871 |
Died | May 4, 1955 | (aged 83)
Academic background | |
Education | Marlborough College |
Alma mater | King's College, London |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Emmanuel College, Cambridge British School at Athens University of Oxford |
Richard MacGillivray Dawkins FBA (24 October 1871 – 4 May 1955) was a British archaeologist.[1][2] He was associated with the British School at Athens, of which he was Director between 1906 and 1913.[3]
Early life
Richard MacGillivray Dawkins was the son of the Royal Navy officer Rear-Admiral Richard Dawkins of Stoke Gabriel and his wife Mary Louisa McGillivray, only surviving daughter of Simon McGillivray. He was educated at Marlborough College and at King's College, London where he trained as an electrical engineer.
Academic career
He took part in the BSA's excavations at Palaikastro,[4] and the survey of Lakonia[5] (see Artemis Orthia and Menelaion, Sparta); also at Rhitsona.[6] He undertook linguistic fieldwork in Cappadocia from 1909 to 1911, which resulted in a basic work on Cappadocian Greek. Then, he led a dig at Philakopi from 1911.[7]
He was a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He was director of the British School at Athens from 1906 to 1913.[8] During the First World War, he served as an intelligence officer attached to the Royal Navy in Crete.[9] In December 1919, he was elected the first Bywater Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature in the University of Oxford.[8] Between 1928 and 1930, Dawkins served as president of the Folklore Society, and in his later life published three considerable collections of Greek folk tales.[9]
In 1907, he inherited the Plas Dulas estate from a first cousin. There, he experimented with plant importation and cultivation. He also displayed archaeological antiquities within the garden.[10]
Works
- Modern Greek in Asia Minor (1916)
- The Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia at Sparta (1929)
- The Cypriot Chronicle of Makhairas (1932)
- The Monks of Athos (1936)
- Forty-Five Stories from the Dodecanese (1950)
- Arabian Nights
- Norman Douglas (G. Orioli, 1933 [Lungarno series], revised 1952)
- Modern Greek Folktales (1953)
- More Greek Folktales (1955)
- More Stories from the Arabian Nights (1957)
References and sources
- References
- ^ Professor R. M. Dawkins The Living Greek Tradition (Obituaries) The Times Friday, May 06, 1955; pg. 13; Issue 53213; col E
- ^ Prof. R. M. Dawkins (Obituaries) The Times Wednesday, May 18, 1955; pg. 13; Issue 53223; col D
- ^ "Directors of the British School at Athens". Swansea University. Retrieved 14 June 2012.
- ^ http://www.bsa.gla.ac.uk/archive/exhibs/pkcent/index.htm?main
- ^ "Mani - History - 1821 to present".
- ^ Ronald M. Burrows and Percy N. Ure in Boeotia. by Dr. Victoria Sabetai, Academy of Athens. A lecture given at the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology, 2006. Archived here.
- ^ http://www.bsa.gla.ac.uk/textonly/history.htm
- ^ a b "Modern Greek at Oxford". The Times. No. 42281. 12 December 1919. p. 18.
- ^ a b Halliday, W. R. (1 June 1955). "Obituary R. M. Dawkins, 1871–1955". Folklore. 66 (2): 299–301. doi:10.1080/0015587X.1955.9717476. ISSN 0015-587X.
- ^ History of Plas Dulas Estate
- Sources
- R. J. H. Jenkins, Richard MacGillivray Dawkins, 1871-1955, Proceedings of the British Academy, 41 (1955), 373–88.
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