Frederick William Hasluck (16 February 1878 – 22 February 1920) was an

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antiquarian, historian, and archaeologist. Hasluck was educated at

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and

King's College, Cambridge King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the city ...

, 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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namely in Geraki and Angelona,

Cyzicus Cyzicus (; grc, Κύζικος ''Kúzikos''; ota, آیدینجق, ''Aydıncıḳ'') was an ancient Greek town in Mysia in Anatolia in the current Balıkesir Province of Turkey. It was located on the shoreward side of the present Kapıdağ Peni ...

and

Bithynia Bithynia (; Koine Greek: , ''Bithynía'') was an ancient region, kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor (present-day Turkey), adjoining the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus, and the Black Sea. It bordered Mysia to the southwest, Pa ...

, finding much new material, including an inscription of Cn.

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and unpublished local coins. His most notable find was a large

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Mysia Mysia (UK , US or ; el, Μυσία; lat, Mysia; tr, Misya) was a region in the northwest of ancient Asia Minor (Anatolia, Asian part of modern Turkey). It was located on the south coast of the Sea of Marmara. It was bounded by Bithynia on the ...

, hitherto unrecorded, the

Aesepus Bridge The Aesepus Bridge ( tr, Güvercin Köprüsü, "Dove Bridge") was a late antique Roman bridge over the Aesepus River (today ''Gönen Çayı'') in the ancient region of Mysia in modern-day Turkey. It is notable for its advanced hollow chamber syste ...

. There he also investigated the sites of the

Makestos Bridge The Macestus Bridge or Bridge of Sultançayır was a Roman bridge across the Macestus River ( tr, Simav or ''Susurluk Çayı'') at Balıkesir, in the northwestern part of modern-day Turkey. Its flattened arches, slender piers and the hollow cham ...

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and Constantine's Bridge. In 1906 he toured

Asia Minor Anatolia, tr, Anadolu Yarımadası), and the Anatolian plateau, also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula in Western Asia and the westernmost protrusion of the Asian continent. It constitutes the major part of modern-day Turkey. The re ...

with Richard M. Dawkins. 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 Konya () is a major city in central Turkey, on the southwestern edge of the Central Anatolian Plateau, and is the capital of Konya Province. During antiquity and into Seljuk times it was known as Iconium (), although the Seljuks also called it D ...

(ancient

Iconium Konya () is a major city in central Turkey, on the southwestern edge of the Central Anatolian Plateau, and is the capital of Konya Province. During antiquity and into Seljuk times it was known as Iconium (), although the Seljuks also called it D ...

) 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

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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

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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

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sanatorium. He died four years later on 22 February 1920. __NOTOC__

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Bibliography

*
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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