List of fellows of the British Academy elected in the 1940s explained

The British Academy consists of world-leading scholars and researchers in the humanities and social sciences. Each year, it elects fellows to its membership. The following were elected in the 1940s.

1940

• Dr Z. N. Brooke
• Rev. M. P. Charlesworth
• Professor V. Gordon Childe
• Sir Cyril Fox
• C. J. Gadd
• Dr E. Prestage
• Professor D. S. Robertson
• Dr W. A. Shaw
• Lord Wright

1941

• J. Allan
• Dr A. B. Cook
• Dr A. C. Ewing
• Professor E. Fraenkel
• T. D. Kendrick
• F. J. E. Raby
• K. Sisam
• Sidney Smith
• Professor H. T. Wade-Gery
• Dr R. E. Mortimer Wheeler

1942

• Dr E. R. Bevan
• Professor E. R. Dodds
• Dr J. L. le B. Hammond
• Professor J. R. Hicks
• Professor L. C. Robbins
• E. S. G. Robinson
• Professor R. L. Turner

1943

• Christopher Dawson
• J. Goronwy Edwards
• A. S. F. Gow
• Professor Battiscombe Gunn
• Professor H. H. Price
• Professor F. P. Wilson

1944

• Dr C. K. Allen
• Professor H. W. Bailey
• G. Caton Thompson
• Professor H. A. R. Gibb
• Professor F. A. von Hayek
• Dr F. E. Hutchinson
• Dr W. H. S. Jones
• Professor R. A. B. Mynors
• Professor L. B. Namier
• Dr F. Saxl
• Ronald Syme
• Harold Williams

1945

• Professor B. H. Sumner
• Helen Cam
• Professor T. W. Manson
• A. D. Waley
• Sir R. O. Winstedt
• E. F. Carritt
• Professor G. C. Cheshire
• Professor A. J. B. Wace

1946

• Sir A. Carr-Saunders
• Rev. C. H. Dodd
• Professor S. R. K. Glanville
• Professor R. Hackforth
• Professor E. F. Jacob
• H. Mattingly
• Professor H. J. Paton
• Professor T. F. T. Plucknett
• Professor W. L. Renwick
• Professor E. Ll. Woodward

1947

• Sir E. Barker
• O. G. S. Crawford
• Professor K. A. C. Creswell
• H. Darbishire
• Sir C. Flower
• Professor A. W. Gomme
• R. F. Harrod
• Professor A. H. M. Jones
• Professor M. D. Knowles
• I. A Richmond
• C. H. Roberts
• Professor H. H. Rowley
• Rev. J. M. Thompson
• Professor B. Willey

1948

• Professor Sir Reginald Coupland
• Professor G. C. Field
• Professor C. F. C. Hawkes
• Professor Sir Hubert Henderson
• Dr P. E. Kahle
• Rev. Dr W. L. Knox
• Professor H. Lauterpacht
• W. A. Pantin
• Professor R. Pares
• Rev. Professor C. E. Raven
• Professor Leon Roth
• Dr J. V. Scholderer
• F. Wormald

1949

• Professor A. J. Arberry
• Dr R. W. Chapman
• Sir Kenneth Clark
• Professor David Douglas
• Professor R. W. Firth
• Rev. Dr W. F. Howard
• Professor J. E. Neale
• Dr Rudolf Pfeiffer
• A. E. Popham

See also

• Fellows of the British Academy

References

The above names are taken from the British Academy Annual Reports, found in the Proceedings of the British Academy for the years 1940 to 1949.