CROWFOOT, JOHN WINTER°

CROWFOOT, JOHN WINTER° (1873–1959), British Orientalist. Educated at Marlborough and Oxford, Crowfoot served as director of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem from 1927 to 1935 and as chairman of the Palestine Exploration Fund from 1945 to 1950. He excavated in the Tyropoeon Valley, Jerusalem, (1927–29), Jerash in Transjordan (1928–30), and Samaria-Sebaste (1931–33, 1935). Crowfoot was the author of Churches at Jerash (1931), Churches at Bosra and Samaria-Sebaste (1937), Samaria-Sebaste (3 vols., 1938–57), and Early Churches in Palestine (1941). His wife, GRACE MARY CROWFOOT (1878–1958), was a specialist in the archaeology of pottery, glass, textiles, basketry, and mats. She contributed to the Oxford History of Technology (ed. by C. Singer, 5 vols., 1954–58) and also wrote about the linen wrappings of the Dead Sea Scrolls. She was the joint author (with Louise Baldensperger) of From Cedar to Hyssop (1935), a study of the folklore of Palestinian plants. Their daughter, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910–1994), was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1964. -ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY: ODNB online. (Michael Avi-Yonah)