Dr Michael Heudebourck Ballance

1945 BALLANCE, Dr Michael Heudebourck BALLANCE, father of Alexia Susan Ballance (1982), died on 27 July 2006, aged seventy-eight. He read Classics at St John’s, and then became Rome Scholar in Classical Studies at the British School at Rome (BSR). After National Service he undertook field archaeology in Turkey, returning many times through the years, and publishing material resulting from this. He was appointed Assistant Director and Librarian at the BSR in 1957. In 1962 he received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh and became a Classics Teacher and Curator of the Myers Museum at Eton, where he remained until 1986. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1990 and was a Research Associate at the Institute of Archaeology at Oxford for the next ten years. His wife, Selina, died in April 2007; they are survived by their children Elizabeth, James and Alexia, and grandchildren Charlie and Lucy.
Obit in The Eagle, University of Cambridge.