Frederick William Hasluck (16 February 1878 – 22 February 1920) was an English antiquarian, historian, and archaeologist. Hasluck was educated at The Leys School and King's College, Cambridge, graduating with a first class degree in

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in 1904 and winning a Browne medal. He then went to the

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and helped on excavations in

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, Greece namely in Geraki and Angelona, Cyzicus and

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, finding much new material, including an inscription of Cn. Pompeius Magnus and unpublished local coins. His most notable find was a large Roman bridge in Mysia, hitherto unrecorded, the

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. There he also investigated the sites of the

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and Constantine's Bridge. In 1906 he toured Asia Minor with

Richard M. Dawkins Richard MacGillivray Dawkins FBA (24 October 1871 – 4 May 1955) was a British archaeologist. He was associated with the British School at Athens, of which he was Director between 1906 and 1913. Early life He was the son of Rear-Admiral Rich ...

. In 1913, being Assistant Director (1911–15) and Librarian (1906–15) of the British School in Athens, Hasluck married Margaret Hardie. As a wedding present, Hardie chose a visit to Konya (ancient

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) from the options offered her by her husband, and the couple spent the spring of 1913 there together. Frederick had long been interested in the interplay of Christianity and

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within the

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, and he was gradually to make this a central part of his work. The Haslucks were based in Athens and, over the next four years, had the opportunity to travel widely together in the southwest

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s. Hasluck's work was cut short by a combination of factors, one of which was his becoming the target of

Alan John Bayard Wace Alan John Bayard Wace (13 July 1879 – 9 November 1957) was an English archaeologist. Biography Wace was educated at Shrewsbury School and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was director of the British School at Athens (1914–1923), Deputy Keepe ...

, an erstwhile colleague in Athens, who appears to have regarded Hasluck a potential rival. Returning to London, having prepared the ground by becoming part of the managing committee, Wace gained the post of Director of the School and, possibly motivated also by an animosity toward Mrs. Hasluck, asked London to sack Hasluck. This they did. The Haslucks stayed in Athens working at the British

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and assisted British wartime intelligence operations.''Margaret Hasluck'', Robert Elsie, ''Historical Dictionary of Albania'', (Scarecrow Press Inc., 2010), 184-185. In 1916 Margaret accompanied her husband to

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, where he entered a tuberculosis sanatorium. He died four years later on 22 February 1920. __NOTOC__

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Cyzicus
', 1910. * Constantinata, 1913. * ''Mount Athos and the Monasteries'', 1924. * ''Letters on Religion and Folklore'', 1926. * ''Christianity and Islam under the Sultans'', edited by

Margaret Hasluck Margaret Masson Hardie Hasluck M.B.E. (1944) (18 June 1885 – 18 October 1948) was a Scottish geographer, linguist, epigrapher, archaeologist and scholar. Biography Margaret Hasluck was born Margaret Hardie and graduated from Aberdeen Universi ...

, Vols
I
an
II
, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1929), reprinted (Istanbul: Isis Press, 2000), with different pagination. * * *
Part I: ''Excavations near Angelona''
pp. 81–90 *
Part II: ''Geraki'', Chapter 1: ''Excavations''
pp. 91–99

Works about F. W. Hasluck

* Shankland, David (2004), Archaeology, Anthropology and Heritage in the Balkans and Anatolia: The Life and Times of F. W. Hasluck 1878-1920, Istanbul, Isis Press. * Halliday, William Reginald (December 1920) "Obituary of F. W. Hasluck", Folk-Lore, volume 31 pp. 336–338.

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