Lida Shaw King, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lida Shaw King

American classical scholar and college dean

Date of Birth: 15-Sep-1868

Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 10-Jan-1932

Profession: classical scholar, archaeologist, anthropologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Lida Shaw King (September 15, 1868 in Boston – January 10, 1932 in Providence) was an American classical scholar and college dean.
She graduated from Vassar College in 1890 and from Brown University (A.M.) in 1894 and continued her graduate studies at Vassar (1894–1895), Radcliffe (1897–1898), Bryn Mawr (1899–1900), and at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens (1900–1901) where she was awarded the Agnes Hoppin Memorial Fellowship.
She taught the classics at Vassar (1894–1897) and at the Packer Collegiate Institute (1898–1899, 1901–1902), and at Brown was assistant professor of classical philology (1905–1909), dean of the Women's College from 1905–1922, and professor of classical literature and archæology 1909–1922.
She made contributions to the American Journal of Archaeology. She resigned from her positions at Brown in 1922 due to illness, and died in Providence on January 10, 1932.
An appreciation of her work as Dean at Brown University was written by Mary Emma Woolley in 1923.



Alternative names	Frank W. Benson; Frank Benson; Benson
Description	American painter
Date of birth/death	24 March 1862	15 November 1951
Location of birth/death	Salem	Salem
Authority control	: Q956055 VIAF: 19787633 ISNI: 0000 0000 8098 8653 ULAN: 500026137 LCCN: n80120832 WGA: BENSON, Frank Weston WorldCat