Background
GRIERSON, Philip was born on November 15, 1910 in Dublin. Son of Philip Henry Grierson and Roberta Ellen Jane Pope.
GRIERSON, Philip was born on November 15, 1910 in Dublin. Son of Philip Henry Grierson and Roberta Ellen Jane Pope.
Marlborough College, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Lecturer in Histoiy, Cambridge 1945-1959. Reader in Medieval Numismatics, Cam bridge 1959-1971. Professor, of Numismatics, University of Cambridge 1971-1978, Emeritus Professor since 1978.
Professor, of Numismatics and Histoiy of Coinage, University of Brussels 1948-1981.
Ford’s Lecturer in History, University of Oxford 1956-1957. Fellow. Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge since 1935, Librarian 1944-1969, President 196676.
Literary Director Royal Historical Society 1945-1955. Honorary Keeper of the Coins, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge since 1949.
Adviser in Byzantine Numismatics to Dumbarton Oaks Libraiy and Collection, Harvard University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America since 1955.
President Royal Numismatic Society 1961-1966. Correspondent; Fellow, Medieval Academy, of America 1972. Honorary Doctor of Letters (Ghent) 1958, (Leeds) 1978.
Koninklijke Vlaamse Academy 1955. Academy Royale de Belgique 1968.