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Nowell Myres
John Nowell Linton Myres CBE (27 December 1902 - 25 September 1989) was a British archaeologist and Bodley's Librarian at the Bodleian Library in Oxford from 1948 until his resignation in 1965; and librarian of Christ Church before his Bodleian appointment.
Life.
His father Sir John Myres had been Wykeham Professor of Ancient History at Oxford. Nowell Myres was educated at Winchester College and then New College, Oxford and was president of the Oxford University Archaeological Society in 1923. He became a tutor at Christ Church
Nowell
Nowell may refer to:
- Nowell (name)
- Nowell (surname)
- Nowell Salmon (1835-1912), British Admiral of the Fleet and recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Nowell Myres (1902-1989), British archaeologist and librarian
- Nowell, Wisconsin, a ghost town
- Nowell Codex, one of the four major Anglo-Saxon literature codices; contains the unique copy of the epic poem "Beowulf"
See also.
- "The First Nowell