John Beazley
Oxford, England | |
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Title | Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art |
Board member of | British Academy |
Spouse |
Marie Ezra
(m. 1919; died 1967) |
Awards | Ancient Greek pottery |
Institutions | |
Notable works |
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Sir John Davidson Beazley,
Early life
Beazley was born in
Academic career
After graduating, Beazley spent time at the
During
when he was on secondment to the British Army.In 1925, he became
Later life
Beazley retired in 1956, but continued to work until his death in
Honours
Beazley was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 1927.[2][9] He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1943.[10] In 1954, he was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[11]
Beazley was appointed a Knight Bachelor in 1949, and therefore granted the title sir.[3][12] He was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour in the 1959 New Year Honours "for services to scholarship".[13]
Personal life
In 1919, Beazley married a widow, Marie Ezra (née Bloomfield), whose first husband had been killed in World War I. She died in 1967.[3]
His stepdaughter, from Marie's previous marriage, Giovanna Marie Therese Babette "Mary" Ezra married Irish poet Louis MacNeice.[14]
There is a notebook in Beazley's hand in Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts, the Bodleian Library, Oxford (MS. Eng. misc. e. 1390), containing his notes on Greek literature and sculpture and on Roman history, but also his illustrations of classical statuary and his sketched caricatures of some contemporaries.
References
- ^ a b "Sir John Beazley". University of Oxford. 12 June 2012. Retrieved 14 June 2012.
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- ^ a b c d e f g h "Beazley, J[ohn] D[avidson], Sir". Dictionary of Art Historians. Archived from the original on 21 July 2012. Retrieved 14 June 2012.
- OCLC 1042418677.)
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link - ^ "No. 29513". The London Gazette (Supplement). 17 March 1916. p. 3025.
- ^ "No. 29774". The London Gazette (Supplement). 3 October 1916. p. 9648.
- ISBN 978-0-521-62733-7.
- ^ Classical Art Research Centre, Retrieved 4 December 2013.
- ^ "BEAZLEY, Sir". British Academy Fellows Archive. The British Academy. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 June 2012.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
- ^ "No. 38553". The London Gazette. 4 March 1949. p. 1125.
- ^ "No. 41589". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1958. p. 26.
- ^ "Louis MacNeice". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 14 June 2012.
External links
- Classical Art Research Centre; location of the Beazley Archive
- Dictionary of Art Historians
- Portraits of Sir John Davidson Beazley (1885-1970) at the National Portrait Gallery, London