Brian B. Shefton

Brian Benjamin Shefton, (born Bruno Benjamin Scheftelowitz; 11 August 1919 – 25 January 2012) was a German-born British classical archaeologist.

He was the founder of the Shefton Museum, which bore his name. Following the rise of the Nazi Party, his father was sacked from his academic job at Cologne University; he had been Professor of Indo-Iranian Philology.

For their first year in England, the Scheftelowitz family lived in Ramsgate, Kent, where his father taught at Montefiore College, a Jewish theological seminary, and Brian was educated at St Lawrence College, an independent school in the town. In Oxford, Brian was educated at Magdalen College School, then an all-boys independent school. He trained at the Pioneer Corps centre in Ilfracombe, Devon, He then served with the 249 (Alien) Company Pioneer Corps which was involved in military camp construction in Catterick, Yorkshire, and then in Scotland.