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John Winter Crowfoot (* 28. Juli 1873 in Wigginton, Oxfordshire; † 6. Dezember 1959 in Geldeston, Norfolk) war ein britischer Kolonialbeamter und Archäologe .
John Winter Crowfoot CBE (28 July 1873 – 6 December 1959) was a British educational administrator and archaeologist. He worked for 25 years in Egypt and Sudan, serving from 1914 to 1926 as Director of Education in the Sudan, before accepting an invitation to become Director of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem .
John W. Crowfoot bei Ausgrabungen im Tyropoion-Tal, Jerusalem (1927) Sein Vater, John Henchman Crowfoot, war als Missionar in Indien tätig, erkrankte aber und kehrte nach Großbritannien zurück. Hier lernte er Mary Bayly kennen; die beiden heirateten 1872.
Archaeologist and educationalist. Husband of Grace Mary Crowfoot. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.
John Crowfoot died at his home at Geldeston on December 6, 1959, at the age of eighty-six, two years after his wife. Palestinian archaeology has thus lost two of its most revered figures.
The Crowfoots came from Beccles in Suffolk, where many of John Crowfoot's relatives entered the medical profession, although his own father had taken holy orders and eventually became chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral.'
21. Feb. 2007 · John W. Crowfoot (1873-1959) first excavated at Phylakopi and later became director of the British School of Archaeology at Jerusalem (1927-35). One of the key figures in the development of an archaeological service in India was John H. Marshall who gained his skills as a member of the British projects in eastern Crete. 6
