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"RONALD MONTAGU BURROWS (1867-1920), English classical scholar and archaeologist, was born at Rugby Aug. 16 1867 and educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford. From 1891 to 1898 he was assistant to Mr. Gilbert Murray, then professor of Greek at Glasgow, and from 1898 to 1908 he was professor of Greek at University College, Cardiff. In 1 9 08 he was transferred to the corresponding chair at the Victoria University of Manchester. He conducted excavations at Pylos and Sphacteria in 1895-6, and at Rhitsona in Boeotia in 1907. In 1913 he became principal of King's College, London, and held that post till his death in London May 14 1920. He published Recent Discoveries in Crete (1907) and various papers on archaeological subjects. All his life he was a fervent Philhellene. During the World War he was in active cooperation with the efforts of M. Venizelos to protect the interests of Greece and to secure Greek adherence to the Allies, and he took a leading part, by lectures and articles, in making the problems of the Near East familiar to the public.