Allen Butterworth

Allen Butterworth
Allen Butterworth, smiling and wearing a suit, is stood outside of the Yorkshire Museum
Allen Butterworth outside the Yorkshire Museum in 1970
Born21 June 1939
Stockport, Cheshire, UK
Died24 June 1974(1974-06-24) (aged 35)
OccupationsArchaeologist and Curator

Allen Butterworth (21 June 1939 – 24 June 1974) was a British archaeologist and museum curator.

Biography

Butterworth was born in Stockport. He took undergraduate studies in Latin, Greek, and Romano-British Archaeology at the University of Leeds before a post-graduate diploma in Prehistoric European Archaeology from the University of London.

He joined Leicester Museums in 1964 before being appointed Keeper of Antiquities at Sheffield City Museums in 1966, eventually becoming the deputy director there in 1968. On 2 November 1970 he became the Keeper of the Yorkshire Museum, a position he kept until his sudden death on 24 June 1974. He was a member of the Museums Association and an examiner for the Museums Diploma, and was a member of the International Committee for Archaeology and History.

Publications

References

  1. 1 2 Pyrah, B. (1988). The History of the Yorkshire Museum and its Geological Collections. North Yorkshire County Council. p. 133.
  2. 1 2 Malden, J. (1975). "Obituary: Allen Butterworth, BA, AMA". Yorkshire Philosophical Society Annual Report for the year 1974. p. 5.
  3. 1 2 "Allen Butterworth, BA, AMA". Yorkshire Philosophical Society Annual Report for the year 1970. 1971. p. 21.