ARCHAEOLOGIST

John Beazley

1885 - 1970

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Sir John Davidson Beazley (; 13 September 1885 – 6 May 1970) was a British classical archaeologist and art historian, known for his classification of Attic vases by artistic style. He was professor of classical archaeology and art at the University of Oxford from 1925 to 1956. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Beazley is the 127th most popular archaeologist (down from 124th in 2019), the 4,573rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,223rd in 2019) and the 24th most popular British Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, John Beazley ranks 127 out of 151Before him are James Mellaart, Charles Dawson, Ekrem Akurgal, Ivan Borkovský, Nancy Dupree, and Klaus Schmidt. After him are Karel Absolon, Muhibbe Darga, Grahame Clark, Boris Piotrovsky, Paolo Orsi, and James Prinsep.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, John Beazley ranks 233Before him are René Benjamin, Károly Dietz, George Fitzmaurice, Alan Noble, John Fenning, and Ben Chifley. After him are Ring Lardner, Georgina de Albuquerque, Charles Rosher, Julio Lozano Díaz, Walter Anderson, and Károly Levitzky. Among people deceased in 1970, John Beazley ranks 229Before him are Alexandros Chalkokondylis, Vilhelm Carlberg, Conrad Nagel, Jacob Viner, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Irawati Karve. After him are Ernst Krebs, William Hopper, Walter Reuther, David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven, Leopoldo Conti, and Otis Spann.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Beazley ranks 4,574 out of 8,785Before him are Richard Haydn (1905), Sarah Fuller Flower Adams (1805), John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville (1690), Kenneth More (1914), Daphne Oram (1925), and John Braine (1922). After him are Ann Cleeves (1954), James Robertson Justice (1907), Eric Gill (1882), Lindsay Hoyle (1957), Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1983), and Princess Sophia of Gloucester (1773).

Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, John Beazley ranks 24Before him are John Marshall (1876), John Evans (1823), E. A. Wallis Budge (1857), Mortimer Wheeler (1890), James Mellaart (1925), and Charles Dawson (1864). After him are Grahame Clark (1907), James Prinsep (1799), Meave Leakey (1942), John M. Allegro (1923), Bernard Pyne Grenfell (1869), and John Garstang (1876).