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John Winter Crowfoot CBE (28 July 1873 – 6 December 1959) was a British educational administrator and archaeologist. He worked for 25 years in Egypt and Sudan, serving from 1914 to 1926 as Director of Education in the Sudan, before accepting an invitation to become Director of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem .
John Crowfoot died at his home at Geldeston on December 6, 1959, at the age of eighty-six, two years after his wife. Palestinian archaeology has thus lost two of its most revered figures.
Also known as. John Winter Crowfoot. primary name:Crowfoot, John Winter. Details. individual; archaeologist; British; Male. Life dates. 1873-1959. Biography. English archaeologist; son of J H Crowfoot, Chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral; Lecturer in Classics in Birmingham University (1899-1900), Director of Education and Principal of Gordon ...
CROWFOOT, JOHN WINTER ° (1873–1959), British Orientalist. Educated at Marlborough and Oxford, Crowfoot served as director of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem from 1927 to 1935 and as chairman of the Palestine Exploration Fund from 1945 to 1950.
Dorothy Crowfoot was born in Cairo on May 12th, 1910 where her father, John Winter Crowfoot, was working in the Egyptian Education Service. He moved soon afterwards to the Sudan, where he later became both Director of Education and of Antiquities; Dorothy visited the Sudan as a girl in 1923, and acquired a strong affection for the country.
28 de abr. de 2010 · From 1926 John Crowfoot was able to pursue his passion for archaeology as director of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem; Molly Crowfoot excavated alongside him, and gained...
Archaeologist and educationalist. Husband of Grace Mary Crowfoot. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.
