Vincent Desborough
British historian and archaeologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Vincent Robin d'Arba Desborough, FBA, FSA was an English historian and archaeologist. His is credited with discovering the Greek Dark Ages. Life and career Born on 19 July 1914 at Tunbridge Wells, Desborough's father was Latvian and his mother British. He was schooled in France and Switzerland before attending St Augustine's in Ramsgate and Downside School. He then studied classics at New College, Oxford, from 1932, graduating in the second class in 1936. He completed the BLitt at Oxford under Sir John Myres's supervision. In 1937, he was awarded the Macmillan Studentship by the British School at Athens; his research there allowed him to complete his BLitt in 1939, taking the Charles Oldham Prize; the degree was awarded in 1940.
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