Reynold Alleyne Higgins (born 26 November 1916 in

Weybridge Weybridge () is a town in the Borough of Elmbridge in Surrey, England, around southwest of central London. The settlement is recorded as ''Waigebrugge'' and ''Weibrugge'' in the 7th century and the name derives from a crossing point of the ...

, Surrey; died 18 April 1993 in

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, Surrey) was a

Classical Archaeologist Classical archaeology is the archaeological investigation of the Mediterranean civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Nineteenth-century archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann were drawn to study the societies they had read about i ...

. He worked at the department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the

British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docume ...

from 1947 to 1977, finishing his career as Acting Keeper. He was also Chairman of the Managing Committee of the

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from 1975 to 1979. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 1972. He was educated at

Sherborne School (God and My Right) , established = 705 by Aldhelm, re-founded by King Edward VI 1550 , closed = , type = Public school Independent, boarding school , religion = Church of England , president = , chair_label = Chairman of the governors ...

and Pembroke College, Cambridge.‘HIGGINS, Reynold Alleyne’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016

Books

*''Greek and Roman Jewellery''. London, Methuen 1961 *''Greek terracotta figures''. London, British Museum 1969, *''The Greek Bronze Age''. London, British Museum 1970, *''The Archaeology of Minoan Crete''. London, The Bodley Head 1973, *''Jewellery from classical lands ''. London, British Museum 1976, *''The Aegina treasure: an archaeological mystery''. London, British Museum 1979, *''Minoan and Mycenaean Art''. New rev. ed., London, Thames & Hudson 1997, With Michael Higgins
''A Geological Companion to Greece and the Aegean''
London, Duckworth/ Cornell Univ Press 1996,

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Nicolas Coldstream John Nicolas Coldstream, , (30 March 1927 – 21 March 2008) was an archaeologist and academic specialising in the Ancient Greek pottery of the Geometric Period. He lectured at Bedford College, rising to become Professor of Aegean Archaeology, ...

Obituary: Reynold Alleyne Higgins - 1916-1993 1995 Proceedings of the British Academy, 87: 309-324
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Sinclair Hood Martin Sinclair Frankland Hood, FBA (31 January 1917 – 18 January 2021), generally known as Sinclair Hood, was a British archaeologist and academic. He was Director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens from 1954 to 1962, and led t ...

Obituary: Reynold Higgins
in

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, 22. April 1993
Bücher und Schriften in der Datenbank der Uni Freiburg
{{DEFAULTSORT:Higgins, Reynold Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London 1916 births 1993 deaths People educated at Sherborne School Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge English archaeologists People from Weybridge 20th-century archaeologists Employees of the British Museum Fellows of the British Academy