John Bryan Ward-Perkins
John Bryan Ward-Perkins CMG, CBE, FBA(born 1912 Bromley, Kent, United Kingdom; died 1981 Cirencester, United Kingdom) was a British Classical architectural historian and archaeologist, and director of the British School at Rome(http://www.bsr.ac.uk/).
He was the eldest son of Bryan Ward-Perkins, a British civil servant in India, and Winifred Mary Hickman. Ward-Perkins attended the Winchester School and New College, Oxford, graduating in 1934. He was awarded the Craven traveling fellowship at Magadalen College, which he used to study archaeology in Great Britain and France. He served as assistant under Sir R. E. Mortimer Wheeler (1890-1976) from 1936-39 at the London Museum. There he wrote a catalog of the museum's collection. During these years Ward-Perkins was also involved in a the excavation of a Roman villa near Welwyn Garden City.
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