Austin, Reginald Percy
- Reference
- Ure Museum Archive/Drawer D
- Extent
- The Ure Museum holds his correrespondence wtih Percy and Annie Ure from the 1920s-1940s.
- Date
- early 20th C
- University Collection
- Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology
Austin was an archaeologist and epigrapher. He studied Classics at University College Reading, and subsequently travelled to Greece as a student at the British School at Athens in the 1920s. He directed excavations at Haliartos, Greece. Eventually he became Reader in Ancient History at the University of Birmingham. A brief biography of Austin can be found here.