Droop, J. P

LC control no.	no2012142641
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Droop, J. P. *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Droop, John Perceval, 1882- Droop, J. P. (John Percival), 1882-1963 Droop, John Percival, 1882-1963
Birth date	1882-10-04
Death date	1963-09-26 d2 edtf
Place of birth	Kensington (London, England)
Place of death	Vence (France)
Field of activity	Classical antiquities Pottery, Greek
Affiliation	British School at Athens Great Britain. Admiralty University of Liverpool
Profession or occupation	Archaeologists
Found in	Annals of archaeology and anthropology, 1948: t.p. (J.P. Droop) LC in OCLC, Nov. 2, 2012 hdg.: Droop, John Perceval, 1882- ; usage (J.P. Droop) Cambridge Digital Library, June 27, 2024 (Drawings of Objects from Chamber Tombs (MCNE-2-3-01); John Percival Droop, classical archaeologist) <https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-CLASSICS-MCNE-00002-00003-00001/1> ScienceDirect, 2006: volume 157, issue 3, page 345-358 (The 'Droop Equation'-Michael Droop and the Legacy of the 'Cell-Quota Model' of Phytoplankton Growth; Michael Richmond Droop (1918-), son of John Percival Droop (1882-1963), a Cambridge-educated archaeologist who spent the early part of his career working in association with the British School at Athens; his speciality was the study of Greek pottery and a type of Laconian cup was named in his honour (the Droop cup); during the First World War, J.P. Droop was attached to the Admiralty (1914-1921); subsequently he was elected to the Charles W. Jones chair of Classical Archaeology at the University of Liverpool; the name Droop is of German origin and is pronounced to rhyme with 'soap') Wikipedia, June 27, 2024 (John Percival Droop; John Percival Droop (4 October 1882, Kensington, London - 26 September 1963, Vence, France) was a British classical archaeologist of Dutch descent; he excavated widely at Chester, Bainbridge and Lancaster in Britain, and at Niebla in Spain; he edited the scholarly journal Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology from 1937 until 1948; Droop gives his name to an Ancient Greek bowl form, dating from the 6th century BC, which he studied and categorised; Droop also researched the temple of Artemis Orthia at Sparta)