Alan Albert Antisdel Blakeway (1898 - 9 October 1936) was a British

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who was director of the

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Early life

Alan Albert Antisdel Blakeway was born in 1898, the eldest son of the venerable C.E. Blakeway

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of Stafford.

Career

Blakeway was a master at Winchester School from 1924 to 1931. He was a fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. He was appointed director of the British School at Athens in 1936 but died the same year. He was replaced by G.M. Young.

Family

Blakeway married Alison Hope (later Mrs Antony Andrewes) in 1935.

Death

Blakeway died of

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on 9 October 1936."Deaths", ''The Times'', 12 October 1936, p. 1.

Selected publications

*"Prolegomena to the study of Greek commerce with Italy, Sicily, and France in the eighth and seventh centuries B.C.," ''Annual of the British School at Athens'', 33, pp. 170–208. *"Demaratus: A study in some aspects of the earliest Hellenisation of Latium and Etruria", ''

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'', 1935. *''Lectures on early Greek history and the Peloponnesian League''. Oxford, 1935.

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