List of Fellows of the British Academy elected in the 1940s

Last updated October 03, 2019

The British Academy consists of world-leading scholars and researchers in the humanities and social sciences. Each year, it elects fellows to its membership. The following were elected in the 1940s.

The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars spanning all disciplines across the humanities and social sciences and a funding body for research projects across the United Kingdom. The academy is a self-governing and independent registered charity, based at 10–11 Carlton House Terrace in London.

1940

Martin Percival Charlesworth was a classical scholar.

Vere Gordon Childe was an Australian archaeologist who specialised in the study of European prehistory. He spent most of his life in the United Kingdom, working as an academic for the University of Edinburgh and then the Institute of Archaeology, London, and wrote twenty-six books during his career. Initially an early proponent of culture-historical archaeology, he later became the first exponent of Marxist archaeology in the Western world.

Sir Cyril Fred Fox was an English archaeologist.

1941

John Allan, was a British numismatist and scholar of Sanskrit. Allan was a noted numismatist and produced the first systematic study of the coins the Gupta Empire, which remains a standard reference today.

Arthur Bernard Cook was a British classical scholar, known for work in archaeology and the history of religions. He is best known for his three-part work Zeus: A Study in Ancient Religion. Cook is often considered one of the Cambridge Ritualists, and although he did not produce theoretical works, he has been called "perhaps the most typical disciple" of J. G. Frazer. His poem Windsor Castle won the Chancellor's Gold Medal for poetry at Cambridge.

Alfred Cyril Ewing, usually cited as A. C. Ewing, was an English philosopher and a sympathetic critic of idealism.

1942

Edwyn Robert Bevan OBE, FBA was a versatile British philosopher and historian of the Hellenistic world.

Eric Robertson Dodds was an Irish classical scholar. He signed all his publications E. R. Dodds.

John Lawrence Le Breton Hammond was a British journalist and writer on social history and politics. A number of his best-known works were jointly written with his wife, Barbara Hammond. She was the sister of poet and novelist G. F. Bradby.

1943

Christopher Henry Dawson was a British independent scholar, who wrote many books on cultural history and Christendom. Dawson has been called "the greatest English-speaking Catholic historian of the twentieth century". The 1988–1989 academic year at the College of Europe was named in his honour.

Sir (John) Goronwy Edwards FBA was a Welsh historian.

Andrew Sydenham Farrar Gow was an English classical scholar and teacher. Apart from eleven years as a master at Eton College between 1914 and 1925 his career was entirely at Trinity College, Cambridge.

1944

Sir Carleton Kemp Allen was an Australian-born professor and Warden of Rhodes House, University of Oxford.

Sir Harold Walter Bailey,, who published as H. W. Bailey, was an eminent English scholar of Khotanese, Sanskrit, and the comparative study of Iranian languages.

Gertrude Caton Thompson, was an influential English archaeologist at a time when participation by women in the discipline was uncommon. While a lot of her archaeological work was in Egypt, she also went on expeditions in countries like Zimbabwe and South Arabia. Many of her contributions to the field of archaeology include a technique for excavating archaeological sites and information on Paleolithic to Predynastic civilizations in Zimbabwe and Egypt. Caton Thompson held many official positions in organizations such as the Prehistoric Society and the Royal Anthropological Institute.

1945

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1947

1948

Professor Sir Reginald Coupland
Professor G. C. Field
Professor C. F. C. Hawkes
Professor Sir Hubert Henderson
Dr P. E. Kahle
Rev. Dr W. L. Knox
Professor H. Lauterpacht
W. A. Pantin
Professor R. Pares
Rev. Professor C. E. Raven
Professor Leon Roth
Dr J. V. Scholderer
F. Wormald

1949

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References

The above names are taken from the British Academy Annual Reports, found in the Proceedings of the British Academy for the years 1940 to 1949.

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