Ronald Burrows
Ronald Montagu Burrows was a British archaeologist and academic, who served as Principal of King's College London from 1913 to 1920.Biography
Burrows was born on 16 August 1867 in Rugby, Warwickshire, England, where his father was a master of Rugby School. He was educated at Charterhouse School and Christ Church, Oxford.
He began is academic career as an assistant to the Professor of Greek at the University of Glasgow from 1891 to 1897. He was then appointed Professor of Greek at University College, Cardiff, where he taught from 1898 until 1908. He was Hulme Professor of Greek at the University of Manchester between 1908 and 1913. In 1913, he was appointed Principal of King's College London, a post he held until his death in 1920.
Burrows was also a noted archaeologist who performed excavations in Greece at Pílos and the nearby island of Sfaktiría. Much of this work helped to establish studies of the Minoan civilization. With Percy and Annie Ure, he undertook important excavations at Rhitsona in Boeotia, Greece.
He was also involved in bringing Greece into the First World War as a political and military ally of Britain.
