Francis J. Haverfield

Francis J. Haverfield
Born	(1860-11-08)8 November 1860 Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, England
Died	Headington Hill, Oxford
Citizenship	United Kingdom
Nationality	English
Fields	History Archaeology
Institutions	Lancing College, Brasenose College
Alma mater	New College, University of Oxford
Academic advisors	Theodor Mommsen
Notable students	Thomas Ashby, R. G. Collingwood, John Garstang
Known for	Study and publication of Roman history. Pioneering study of Romano-British archaeology.

Francis John Haverfield (November 8, 1860 at Shipston-on-Stour – 1919) was a British historian and archaeologist.

Education

Educated at Winchester College and the University of Oxford, he also worked under Theodor Mommsen. In 1907 he became Camden Professor of Ancient History at Oxford.

Work

Haverfield was the first to undertake a scientific study of Roman Britain and he is considered by some to be the first theorist to tackle the issue of the Romanization of the Roman Empire. Some consider him the innovator of the discipline of Romano-British archaeology. His works include The Romanization of Roman Britain (1905) (which originated as a lecture to the British Academy and for which he is best known), Ancient Town Planning (1913), and The Roman Occupation of Britain (1924), many monographs, and the authoritative chapters he contributed to the Victoria History of the Counties of England. He excavated the Roman fort at Hardknott, the site of ancient Mediobogdum in Cumbria. He collected and published known Latin inscriptions in Britain.

Haverfield is credited as playing a prominent role in creation of both the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies and the British School at Rome.

Students

Among his students was the archaeologist and topographer Thomas Ashby (1874–1931), the first scholar and third director of the British School at Rome, the Oxford historian, archaeologist, and philosopher R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943) as well as archaeologist and anthropologist John Garstang (1876-1956)

External links

• Works by Francis Haverfield at Project Gutenberg
• List of Papers of Francis J. Haverfield
• George Macdonald, "Haverfield, Francis John (1860–1919)," rev. P. W. M. Freeman, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography first published 2004; online edn, May 2010, 975 words http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/33762