Captain John D. S. Pendlebury

CLASSICAL and prehistoric archæology suffer a severe loss in the death, during the invasion of Crete, of Captain John D. S. Pendlebury. He was the son of Herbert S. Pendlebury, a well-known London surgeon, and was educated at Winchester College and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he held an exhibition and represented the University, and also England, in the high jump in 1926-27. As an undergraduate he showed already the high promise in classical scholarship and in archæology which he fulfilled in later years, and, on graduating in the first class of the Classical Tripos, he was awarded the School Studentship in the British School of Archæology at Athens (1927-28) followed by the Macmillan Studentship in 1928-29. He took part in excavations on prehistoric sites in Macedonia, and at Armant and Tell-el-Amarna in 1928 and 1929. This combination of Ægean and Oriental interests enabled him to put together in Ægyptiaca (1930) a 'corpus' of scarabs and other objects of Egyptian workmanship found on prehistoric sites in Greek lands, and he projected,-with his scholarly and accomplished wife, a similar record of Ægean objects found in Egypt.