Wace, Alan John Bayard, 1879-1957 (archaeologist)
Dates
- Existence: 1879-07-13 - 1957-11-09
Biography
Alan John Bayard Wace (1879-1957) was born at 4 Camden Place, Cambridge, on 13 July 1879. Wace read for the Classical tripos at Pembroke College, Cambridge, (Matric. 1898) where he held a scholarship. He was awarded a Prendergast studentship and admitted as a student at the British School at Athens during1902-3. In 1904, Wace was elected a fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and was appointed Librarian at the British School in Rome, specifically to work on the catalogue of the sculpture collections during 1905-6. In 1912 Wace was appointed as Lecturer in Ancient History and Archaeology at the University of St Andrews. In 1914 he was appointed Director of the British School in Athens, a post he held until 1923. He became Deputy Keeper in the Department of Textiles at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1924. He was elected to the Laurence chair in Cambridge (1934), was made the Armstrong Lecturer in Toronto (1939), and accepted the chair of Classics and Archaeology at the Farouk I University at Alexandria (1944). He died in Athens on 9 November 1957.