Bosanquet, Robert Carr, 1871-1935

found: The unpublished objects from the Palaikastro excavations, 1923:title page (described by R. C. Bosanquet and R. M. Dawkins)

found: Wikipedia, 28 June 2017(Robert Carr Bosanquet; Robert Carr Bosanquet (1871-1935) was a British archaeologist, operating in the Aegean and Britain and teaching at the University of Liverpool from 1906 to 1920 as the first holder of the Chair of Classical Archaeology there; he was born in London on 7 June 1871 and educated at Eton College and at Trinity College, Cambridge; admitted in 1892 as a student at the British School at Athens, he was among the first to lead excavations at the Minoan seaside town of Palekastro on Crete, from 1902-1905; he also served as Assistant Director and then Director, from 1899-1906, of the British School, during one of its productive periods as a research centre; he ran other important excavations on newly independent Crete, inland at Praisos (1901-1902) and initiated the School's major campaigns at the city of Sparta on the Greek mainland before he went to Liverpool; in his retirement in northern England (Northumbria), at the family home at Rock, he became a respected local archaeologist, but published little of his great store of knowledge on the nature and date of Roman imports north of the frontiers in Britain, Holland, Germany and Denmark)