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Walter Abel Heurtley
Walter Abel Heurtley OBE FSA (24 October 1882 – 2 January 1955) was a British classical archaeologist. The son of a Church of England vicar, he was educated at Uppingham School and read classics at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, on a scholarship. Upon leaving Cambridge, he worked as a teacher at The Oratory School, and became a reserve officer in the Royal Engineers. He served in the East Lancashire Regiment during the First World War, where he was mentioned in dispatches three times and acted as deputy governor of the British military prison at Salonika in Greece.
After the war, Heurtley studied classical archaeology at Oriel College, Oxford, under Percy Gardner and with Stanley Casson, the assistant director of the British School at Athens (BSA). Heurtley followed Casson to the BSA, excavating in 1921 with him in Macedonia, and with the school's director, Alan Wace, at Mycenae. In 1923, Heurtley succeeded Casson as the BSA's assistant director, and also assumed the role of its librarian; he held both posts until his dismissal, on financial grounds, in 1932. He subsequently became the librarian of the Department of Antiquities of the Mandate for Palestine, a position he held until 1939, and ended his career as bursar of The Oratory School.
Heurtley was elected as a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1936. He excavated widely in northern Greece during the 1920s and 1930s, and published his monograph, Prehistoric Macedonia, in 1939. He also excavated on the island of Ithaca between 1930 and 1932, and spent a season at Troy under Carl Blegen in 1932. He was often accompanied on his excavations by his wife, Eileen, who cooked for his excavators. He retired to her ancestral home in County Kerry in 1945, and died of cancer in 1955.
Walter Abel Heurtley was born on 24 October 1882, in Ashington in Sussex. His mother was Mary Elizabeth Heurtley (née Brown). His father was Charles Abel Heurtley, a Church of England vicar at Ashington, a descendant of French Huguenots, and the son of the theologian and Oxford professor Charles Abel Heurtley.
Heurtley was educated at Uppingham School, a public school in Rutland, and won a scholarship from there to read classics at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He matriculated on 1 October 1902, and graduated with a second in 1905. He joined the part-time Volunteer Force of the British Army in 1906, as a second lieutenant in the Royal Engineers. From 1907, Heurtley taught at The Oratory School, a Roman Catholic boarding school then based in Birmingham.
During the First World War, Heurtley joined the East Lancashire Regiment and served in Macedonia. On 21 November 1914, he was made a temporary lieutenant in the regiment's ninth battalion. He rose to the rank of temporary major, was mentioned in despatches three times, and was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1919 for his service, from May 1917, as deputy governor of the British military prison at Salonika in Greece. According to A. W. Lawrence, who later knew Heurtley at the British School at Athens (BSA), he first acquired an interest in archaeology during his time in Salonika. He relinquished the post of deputy governor in February 1919.
After the war, Heurtley moved to Oriel College, Oxford, to take a diploma in classical archaeology, studying under Percy Gardner and with Stanley Casson, the assistant director of the BSA and another former officer of the East Lancashire Regiment. Heurtley joined the BSA in 1921 on an Oxford studentship. He excavated in Macedonia with Casson in the spring of that year, at the site of Chauchitza, which had been discovered and hastily studied in December 1917 during the construction of wartime dugouts. Later in 1921, he joined the excavations of the BSA's director, Alan Wace, at the Bronze Age site of Mycenae. At Mycenae, Heurtley worked alongside Winifred Lamb, a curator from Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum. Heurtley was tasked with preparing the initial scholarly publication of the stelai found in the prehistoric cemetery designated Grave Circle A.
Oxford University's Craven Committee awarded Heurtley a grant to carry out excavations in Macedonia during the 1922–1923 digging season. Towards the end of the summer of 1922, Heurtley made a journey by sailboat from Corinth along the southern coast of Boeotia and Phokis, investigating the trade routes across the Gulf of Corinth during the Mycenaean period: he later published his findings in The Annual of the British School at Athens. He carried out a survey in 1923 with his fellow Craven student William Linsdell Cuttle to find possible excavation sites in western Macedonia and the Chalkidiki peninsula.
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Walter Abel Heurtley
Walter Abel Heurtley OBE FSA (24 October 1882 – 2 January 1955) was a British classical archaeologist. The son of a Church of England vicar, he was educated at Uppingham School and read classics at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, on a scholarship. Upon leaving Cambridge, he worked as a teacher at The Oratory School, and became a reserve officer in the Royal Engineers. He served in the East Lancashire Regiment during the First World War, where he was mentioned in dispatches three times and acted as deputy governor of the British military prison at Salonika in Greece.
After the war, Heurtley studied classical archaeology at Oriel College, Oxford, under Percy Gardner and with Stanley Casson, the assistant director of the British School at Athens (BSA). Heurtley followed Casson to the BSA, excavating in 1921 with him in Macedonia, and with the school's director, Alan Wace, at Mycenae. In 1923, Heurtley succeeded Casson as the BSA's assistant director, and also assumed the role of its librarian; he held both posts until his dismissal, on financial grounds, in 1932. He subsequently became the librarian of the Department of Antiquities of the Mandate for Palestine, a position he held until 1939, and ended his career as bursar of The Oratory School.
Heurtley was elected as a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1936. He excavated widely in northern Greece during the 1920s and 1930s, and published his monograph, Prehistoric Macedonia, in 1939. He also excavated on the island of Ithaca between 1930 and 1932, and spent a season at Troy under Carl Blegen in 1932. He was often accompanied on his excavations by his wife, Eileen, who cooked for his excavators. He retired to her ancestral home in County Kerry in 1945, and died of cancer in 1955.
Walter Abel Heurtley was born on 24 October 1882, in Ashington in Sussex. His mother was Mary Elizabeth Heurtley (née Brown). His father was Charles Abel Heurtley, a Church of England vicar at Ashington, a descendant of French Huguenots, and the son of the theologian and Oxford professor Charles Abel Heurtley.
Heurtley was educated at Uppingham School, a public school in Rutland, and won a scholarship from there to read classics at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He matriculated on 1 October 1902, and graduated with a second in 1905. He joined the part-time Volunteer Force of the British Army in 1906, as a second lieutenant in the Royal Engineers. From 1907, Heurtley taught at The Oratory School, a Roman Catholic boarding school then based in Birmingham.
During the First World War, Heurtley joined the East Lancashire Regiment and served in Macedonia. On 21 November 1914, he was made a temporary lieutenant in the regiment's ninth battalion. He rose to the rank of temporary major, was mentioned in despatches three times, and was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1919 for his service, from May 1917, as deputy governor of the British military prison at Salonika in Greece. According to A. W. Lawrence, who later knew Heurtley at the British School at Athens (BSA), he first acquired an interest in archaeology during his time in Salonika. He relinquished the post of deputy governor in February 1919.
After the war, Heurtley moved to Oriel College, Oxford, to take a diploma in classical archaeology, studying under Percy Gardner and with Stanley Casson, the assistant director of the BSA and another former officer of the East Lancashire Regiment. Heurtley joined the BSA in 1921 on an Oxford studentship. He excavated in Macedonia with Casson in the spring of that year, at the site of Chauchitza, which had been discovered and hastily studied in December 1917 during the construction of wartime dugouts. Later in 1921, he joined the excavations of the BSA's director, Alan Wace, at the Bronze Age site of Mycenae. At Mycenae, Heurtley worked alongside Winifred Lamb, a curator from Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum. Heurtley was tasked with preparing the initial scholarly publication of the stelai found in the prehistoric cemetery designated Grave Circle A.
Oxford University's Craven Committee awarded Heurtley a grant to carry out excavations in Macedonia during the 1922–1923 digging season. Towards the end of the summer of 1922, Heurtley made a journey by sailboat from Corinth along the southern coast of Boeotia and Phokis, investigating the trade routes across the Gulf of Corinth during the Mycenaean period: he later published his findings in The Annual of the British School at Athens. He carried out a survey in 1923 with his fellow Craven student William Linsdell Cuttle to find possible excavation sites in western Macedonia and the Chalkidiki peninsula.