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MR. HUMFREY PAYNE, director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens, died on May 8 at the age of thirty-four years. Humfrey Gilbert Garth Payne was born in 1902, the son of Mr. E. J. Payne, fellow of University College, Oxford. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, holding an open scholarship of the latter foundation. He took first-class honours in both Classical Moderations and the Final School of Literse Humaniores. After graduation, a research studentship of the University and a scholarship from his college enabled him to devote himself to Mediterranean archaeology. For two years he was an assistant on the staff of the Ashmolean Museum, and then in 1929 became director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens. This post he filled with the greatest competence. Although in the term of his directorship no such major excavation as had attracted widespread attention under some of his predecessors occupied the activities of the members, the work of the school gained a decision and directness of purpose which made for a high level of efficiency and scientific precision in archaeological training and research.
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Mr. H. G. G. Payne. Nature 137, 937 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137937b0
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