Background
MYRES, John Linton was born on July 3, 1869 in Preston, Lancashire. Son of late Reverend W. M. Myres of Preston, and Jane, daughter of late Reverend HenryLinton of Stirtloe, Huntingdonshire.
MYRES, John Linton was born on July 3, 1869 in Preston, Lancashire. Son of late Reverend W. M. Myres of Preston, and Jane, daughter of late Reverend HenryLinton of Stirtloe, Huntingdonshire.
Winchester (Scholar). New College, Oxford (Scholar). 1st Moderations (Oxford), 1890.
1st Lit, Humanity, Latin, 1892. Master of Arts.
Fellow of Magdalen College Oxford, 1892-1895. Craven Travelling Fellow, 1892-1894. BurdettCoutts Geological Scholar, 1892.
Student and Tutor of Christ Church, 1895-1907. Arnold Essay, 1899; Lecturer in Classical Archaeology in University of Oxford, 1903. Junior Proctor, 1904-1905.
Secretary to Committee for Anthropology, 1905-1907. Public Examiner in Final Classical School, 1906-1908. Gladstone Professor of Greek and Lecturer in Ancient Geography, University of Liverpool, 1907-1910.
Travelled in Greece and Asia Minor, 1893. Crete, 1893, 1895, 1898, 1903. Conducted excavations in Cyprus, and reorganised Government Museum, 1894.
Honourable Secretary Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1900-1903. Wykeham Professor of Ancient History, Oxford, since 1910.
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Club: Royal Societies.
Travel, study of antiquities.