Stanley CassonFSA (1889–17 April 1944) was an English classical archaeologist. Educated at Ipswich School and at Merchant Taylors' School in Hertfordshire, he attended Lincoln College, Oxford, on an exhibition, where he studied both archaeology and anthropology. He continued his studies at St John's College, Oxford, and the British School at Athens (BSA), where he pursued a then-unusual interest in modern Greek historical anthropology.
During the First World War, Casson served as an officer in the East Lancashire Regiment, and was wounded on the Western Front in 1915. He subsequently transferred as a staff officer to the Macedonian front under George Milne, where he undertook archaeological excavations at Chauchitza and helped to establish the rules and procedures for heritage protection in the area during wartime. He also served in Turkestan, was one of the first Allied officers to enter Constantinople after the Ottoman surrender of November 1918, and was mentioned in despatches. Following his demobilisation, he became the assistant director of the BSA from 1919 until 1922, took a fellowship in 1920 at New College, Oxford, and lectured widely in person and on BBC radio on archaeological matters.
During the inter-war period, he carried out excavations on behalf of the British Academy in the Hippodrome of Constantinople, and held temporary posts at the University of Bristol and at Bowdoin College in the United States. He returned to military service shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, joining the Intelligence Corps as an officer and instructor. He was almost captured during the German invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940, and was subsequently posted to Greece as the chief intelligence officer of No. 27 Military Mission, the British reporting mission to the country. In Greece, he served on the staff of Henry Maitland Wilson and was again almost captured during the Battle of Crete in May 1941. He subsequently joined the Special Operations Executive (SOE), and was serving as the SOE's liaison officer in Greece when he was killed in an aircraft crash on 17 April 1944.
Casson's academic interests and publications were eclectic: outside the archaeology of Classical Greece, he published the earliest major English work on Thrace, and wrote widely on Byzantine art. He published articles in both the scholarly and the popular press, and wrote Murder by Burial, a detective novel with archaeological and anti-fascist themes, in 1938.
StanleyCasson FSA (1889–17 April 1944) was an English classical archaeologist. Educated at Ipswich School and at Merchant Taylors' School in Hertfordshire...
His grave remains there still, with a monument erected by his friend StanleyCasson, poet and archaeologist, who, in 1921, published Rupert Brooke and Skyros...
invited a don to tea, "to welcome StanleyCasson, our new archaeology Fellow". "But, sir," the man replied, "I am StanleyCasson". "Never mind," Spooner said...
Ksinopoulos wrote The City of Aegeion Through the Centuries and in 1939 StanleyCasson, an English art scholar and army officer who studied classical archaeology...
found the hospital a welcome distraction. When Brooke's fellow war poet StanleyCasson wrote Brooke and Skyros in 1921, a "quiet essay" on the passing of his...
Percy Gardner and with StanleyCasson, the assistant director of the British School at Athens (BSA). Heurtley followed Casson to the BSA, excavating in...
Thrace and Illyria: their relations to Greece from the earliest... by StanleyCasson, page 321 Strabo, Geography (ed. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M...
once more in Constantinople". As late as 1940, English historian Sir StanleyCasson described Theodore Paleologus, the family's most famous member, as the...
hastily assembled "cultural delegation" included Stanley Spencer, Leonard Hawkes, Rex Warner, Hugh Casson and A. J. Ayer. Spencer told Zhou Enlai that "I...
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Sculpture. London, Cambridge University Press 1912, (with Guy Dickens and StanleyCasson). Notes on Seljouk buildings at Konia, BSA 21 (1914–16) 31–54, pls....
Ελλάδος [Monuments of Greece] (in Greek). Athens: Π. Δ. Σακελλαρίου. Casson, Stanley (1921). Catalogue of The Acropolis Museum. Vol. IΙ: Sculpture and Architectural...
Master of the Faculty is elected by the past Masters, who include Dinah Casson, Mike Dempsey, Sir Kenneth Grange, Geoffrey Harcourt, Martin Hunt, Timothy...
continuous fight against foul winds." Lionel Casson estimated that average time for the voyage was nearly 70 days. Casson estimates that the outward-bound freighters...
James Cassels General Sir Robert Cassels Brigadier-General Hugh Gilbert Casson General Charles Cathcart, 2nd Earl Cathcart Lieutenant-General Charles Cathcart...
"Cyrus Hall Mccormick". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 14 December 2021. Casson, Herbert Newton (1909), Cyrus Hall McCormick: His Life and Work, Chicago:...
this, author Brenda James, historian William Rubinstein and author John Casson cite many of the same arguments proposed by other anti-Stratfodian theories...
original stage roles. In 1955, together with Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson, the Richardsons undertook a long tour of Australia, in Terence Rattigan's...
Pierre Trudeau 1919–2000 Prime Minister of Canada 31 December 1984 Sir Hugh Casson 1910–1999 Architect and broadcaster 15 June 1985 Philip Larkin 1922–1985...
Fields appeared here in Walk This Way. In 1933, the theatre hosted Lewis Casson in George Bernard Shaw's On the Rocks, followed in 1935 by Love on the Dole...
Ancient History. Cambridge University Press. p. 77. ISBN 9780521033909. Casson, Lionel (1981). The Ancient Mariners 2nd Edition. Princeton University Press...
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