Sheppard Frere

Sheppard Sunderland Frere (born August 23, 1916 in Graffam , West Sussex , † February 26, 2015 in Abingdon , Oxfordshire ) was a British Provincial Roman archaeologist .

Frere studied at Magdalene College in Cambridge until 1938 . From 1938 to 1940 he was a teacher at Epsom College , from 1940 to 1945 he served in the National Fire Service, from 1945 to 1954 he was again a teacher at Lancing College . In 1954 he became Lecturer in Archeology at Manchester University , in 1955 Reader , 1963 Professor of the Archeology of the Roman Provinces at the Institute of Archeology at the University of London . From 1966 to 1988 he was Professor of Archeology of the Roman Empire at the University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College . In 1971 he was elected a member of the British Academy .

From 1955 to 1961 he dug in Verulamium .

Publications (selection)

See A bibliography of the published works of Sheppard Frere. In: Rome and her Northern Provinces. Papers presented to Sheppard Frere. Gloucester 1983, pp. 4-12.

• Britannia. A history of Roman Britain , London, Routledge & Kegan Paul 1967
  • Revised edition. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London; Boston 1978. ISBN 0-7100-8916-3
  • 3rd ed., Extensively rev. Routledge & Kegan Paul London; New York 1987. ISBN 0-7102-1215-1
• with JKS St Joseph: Roman Britain from the Air. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1983. ISBN 0-521-25088-9
• with Frank Lepper: Trajan's Column. A new edition of the Cichorius plates. Alan Sutton, Gloucester 1988. ISBN 0-86299-467-5

Festschriften

• Rome and her Northern Provinces. Papers presented to Sheppard Frere in honor of his retirement from the Chair of the Archeology of the Roman Empire, University of Oxford, 1983 , ed. by Brian Hartley and John Wacher. Sutton, Gloucester 1983. ISBN 0-86299-046-7
• Romanitas. Essays on Roman archeology in honor of Sheppard Frere on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday , ed. by RJA Wilson. Oxbow, Oxford 2006. ISBN 1-84217-248-4 ; ISBN 978-1-84217-248-3

Web links

• Homepage at All Souls College (English)
• Sheppard Frere, archaeologist-obituary. Obituary in The Daily Telegraph, March 13, 2015.
• Obituary: Professor Sheppard Frere CBE. Obituary in The Scotsman, March 14, 2015.