Mr. E. Thurlow Leeds

Abstract

MR. EDWARD THURLOW LEEDS, keeper of the Ashmolean and the Department of Antiquities in the University of Oxford, whose election to a professorial fellowship at Brasenose College is announced, holds a position of distinction among archaeologists for his carefully documented studies in Celtic and Saxon art and archaeology. Mr. Leeds was educated at Upping-ham and Magdalene College, Cambridge, on which foundation he was a scholar. He joined the staff of the Ashmolean as an assistant in the Department of Antiquities in 1908. Since the Great War, Mr. Leeds's influence on the teaching of archaeology at Oxford has been profound; and his appointment as keeper of the Ashmolean on the death of Dr. D. G. Hogarth was regarded as both opportune and a well-merited recognition of his efforts in developing these studies in the University. Mr. Leeds was a vice-president of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1929-32 and Rhind lecturer in archaeology in 1935, his lecture on “Early Saxon Art and Archaeology” afterwards appearing in book-form. Mr. Leeds's responsibilities as keeper are now to be enlarged by the addition of an Institute of Egyptological Studies to the Museum. This is in accordance with a decree passed in Congregation of the University on November 29, which gives practical effect to the bequest, accepted in January last, by the late Prof. F. LI. Griffiths, professor of Egyptology in the University of Oxford, and Mrs. Griffiths for that purpose. Although the Institute will form a department of the Ashmolean, it will be under the control of its own committee of management, a representative body.