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Peter Megaw
Irish architectural historian and archaeologist
Arthur Hubert Stanley "Peter" Megaw, CBE (20 July 1910 – 28 June 2006) was an architectural historian and archaeologist.
He specialised in Byzantine churches.
Peter megaw biography
He served as Director of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, between 1935 and 1960 and as Director of the British School at Athens from 1962 to 1968.
Early life
Megaw was born on 20 July 1910 at Portobello House nursing home in Portobello, Dublin, Ireland.
He was the second of four sons of Arthur Stanley Megaw, a solicitor, and his wife, Helen Isabel Bertha Megaw (née Smith). Between 1924 and 1928, he was educated at Campbell College, Belfast, a boys' boarding school. He went on to read architecture at Peterhouse, Cambridge, at the same time as the actor James Mason, graduating in 1931.[1][2] Two of his brothers, Basil Megaw and Eric Megaw, also had notable careers in their own fields.[3][4]