Terence Bruce Mitford FBA FSA was a Scottish archaeologist and classicist.
10 Facts About Terence Mitford
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Terence Mitford spent his whole career at the University of St Andrews, and had a special interest in the history and archaeology of Cyprus and southern Turkey, making many expeditions to these areas.
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Terence Mitford's father was Charles Eustace Bruce Mitford, and Mitford's name was sometimes given as "Bruce-Mitford".
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Terence Mitford spent his entire career at the University of St Andrews, teaching Latin text and prose composition, but his main interest was archaeology, in which he involved residents of St Andrews as well as students.
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Terence Mitford was promoted to major on 1 April 1948, and nominally transferred to the Intelligence Corps.
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Terence Mitford found many previously unknown inscriptions, assisting the work of the Austrian Academy of Sciences's Committee for the Archaeological Exploration of Asia Minor.
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Terence Mitford's explorations were aided by his physical stamina, his resilience and his fluency in Greek and Turkish.
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Terence Mitford was appointed Reader in Classical Archaeology and retired as Honorary Emeritus Professor in 1973, the year that he was awarded a DLitt by the University of Oxford; he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in the following year.
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Terence Mitford was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1940, and was a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and a Fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
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Terence Mitford had a wife, Margaret, as well as four sons and a daughter.