John George Clark Anderson (6 December 1870 – 31 March 1952) was a classical scholar, who was

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at the

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from 1927 to 1936.

Personal life and career

J. G. C. Anderson, the son of a Scottish clergyman, was born on 6 December 1870, and was educated at

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and

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. He was a

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, from 1897 to 1900, during which time he carried out archaeological explorations in Asia Minor. He returned to Christ Church on his appointment as a Senior Student (the equivalent at Christ Church of Fellows at other colleges) in 1900, and won the university's

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in 1903. He served successively as University Lecturer, then Reader, in Roman Epigraphy between 1919 and 1927, when (in the same year as his appointment as Reader) he became

. The chair was attached to

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, where he became a fellow. He stepped down from the professorship and the fellowship in 1936, and died on 31 March 1952. Anderson opposed the appointment of

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as a Student at Christ Church on nationalistic and perhaps even xenophobic grounds (according to

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, the

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) in the early 1930s.

Works

* ''Asia Minor'' (London: John Murray, 1903)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Anderson, John George Clark 1870 births 1952 deaths Alumni of the University of Aberdeen Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Fellows of Lincoln College, Oxford Fellows of Christ Church, Oxford Fellows of Brasenose College, Oxford British classical scholars Camden Professors of Ancient History Travelers in Asia Minor