Career

He went to Street Paul"s School, London and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was a student of British School of Archaeology at Athens, 1930-1932. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1962 and made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1974.

Assistant Keeper, Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, British Museum, 1932-1939 and 1946-1953

World World War II: Admiralty 1939-1940.

Foreign Office, 1940-1942. Intelligence Officer, Royal Air Force, 1942-1946, Egypt, Syria, Libya, Turkey.

Deputy Keeper, Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, British Museum, 1953-1954

Keeper, Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities, 1955-1974

Visiting Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1974-1975

President, Jewish Historical Society of England, 1959-1961

Chairman, Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society, 1968-1986

Corresponding Member, Greek Archaeological Society

Ordinary Fellow, German Archaeological Institute, 1961.