Nowell Myres

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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 then.

His father Sir John Myres had been Wykeham Professor of Ancient History at Oxford. Myres junior (known as Nowell) was educated at Winchester College and then New College, Oxford and was president of the Oxford University Archaeological Society in 1923. He had also been a tutor at Christ Church from 1928.

He was recognised as a leading authority on British history in the time of the Anglo Saxons and earlier. He and R. G. Collingwood wrote the first volume of the Oxford History of England which was widely recognised as a classic. When the series was re-released in the 1980s this volume was split in two, Peter Salway writing what had been Collingwood's part and Myres rewriting his own part at an impressively advanced age.

Academic offices
Preceded by H.R. Creswick	Bodley's Librarian 1948–1965	Succeeded by Robert Shackleton