Sheppard Frere | |
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 Frere in 1989 | |
| Born | (1916-08-23)23 August 1916 |
| Died | 26 February 2015(2015-02-26) (aged 98) |
| Spouse | Janet Hoare |
| Awards | Order of the British Empire,FSA,Fellow of the British Academy |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Archaeology |
| Institutions | All Souls College, Oxford |
Sheppard Sunderland Frere,CBE,FSA,FBA (23 August 1916 – 26 February 2015) was a British historian andarchaeologist who studied theRoman Empire. He was a fellow atAll Souls College, Oxford.
The son of Noel Gray Frere, of theColonial Service, and his wife Agnes (née Sutherland), Sheppard "Sam" Frere was born in 1916. He was educated atLancing College andMagdalene College, Cambridge.[1] He was a master atEpsom College from 1938–41, and became classics master and housemaster at Lancing College from 1945 to 1954, when he was in charge of the excavations at Canterbury during his summer vacations. He made a number of broadcasts about his work at that time. He left Lancing in 1954 to become a university lecturer in archaeology at theUniversity of Manchester.[2] His family details and dates are given under the family of 'Frere' inBurke's Landed Gentry for 1969. For three seasons early in the 1970s, he was in charge of the archaeological summer school that excavated the Roman fort atStrageath, nearCrieff, in Perthshire.
Between 1955 and 1961 he excavated atVerulamium. He then became Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces at theUniversity of London from 1961 to 1966 before becomingProfessor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire atOxford University, where his communicative lectures at the Archaeological Institute, almost always illustrated with visual tools, on Iron Age and Roman Britain and the Rhine frontier of the Roman Empire were well attended. He was married in 1961 to Janet, daughter of Edward Graham Hoare, and had two children, Sarah Barbara Ruth (born 1962) and Bartle Henry David Hoare (born 1963). He was a 4th cousin ofpaleontologistMary Leakey[3] and shared with her the same descent from the pioneering discoverer ofOld Stone AgeJohn Frere.
Frere was elected as a Fellow of theBritish Academy in 1971, and became aCBE in 1976.[2] He became an Honorary Corresponding Member of theDeutsches Archäologisches Institut in 1964, and a fellow in 1967.[2]
He died in 2015, aged 98.[4][5]
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