Tod, Marcus Niebuhr, 1878-1974 (classical epigrapher)
Person
Biography
See Michael H. Crawford, "Tod, Marcus Niebuhr", The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed., Oxford University Press, September 2004) and
Russell Meiggs, "Marcus Niebuhr Tod", Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. 60 (1975), pp. 485–495.
Tod attended St John's College, Oxford, graduating in 1901, then spent 4 years at the British School in Athens, in 1902 having been appointed Assistant Director and Librarian of the School. During WWI, from 1915-1919, he was an interpreter and officer in the Intelligence Corps in Salonika. A Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford from 1903 to 1947, he was appointed Reader in Greek Epigraphy at Oxford from 1927-1947.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
File
'Tocra antiquities, G. H. Q., M. E. F. 1944' and later correspondence on inscriptions from Cyrenaica, 1944-06-26 - 1971-01-13
File
Reference Code: GBR/3437/JMRD/5/1
Scope and Contents
The earliest papers in the file date to 1944. These comprise correspondence as follows:
Marcus Tod to H. I. Bell on inscriptions from Tocra (Teuchira) copied by Bell's cousin, Major Humphrey Thackrah, togteher with a list of notes on the inquiry by J. Allan, typescript, 2 ff., dated 1944/08/16
H. Thackrah to Brigadier D. C. Cumming summarising the findings for his commanding offcier, typescript on pink paper, 1 f., dated 1944/10/27
4 leaves of typescript memos from C. J. Gadd...
Dates:
1944-06-26 - 1971-01-13