David Whitehouse

David Bryn Whitehouse, (15 October 194117 February 2013) was a British archaeologist and senior scholar of the Corning Museum of Glass. He was director of the British School at Rome between 1974 and 1984.

Early life Whitehouse was born 15 October 1941, the son of Brindley Charles Whitehouse and his wife Alice Margaret Whitehouse. He grew up in the village of Wildmoor near Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. He was educated at Catshill First School Many of the finds he excavated at Siraf are now in the British Museum.

He was director of the British Institute of Afghan Studies between 1973 and 1974, and director of the British School at Rome for ten years, from 1974 to 1984.

In 1985, he published an article based on his work as Director of Excavations at Siraf, in which he concluded, "I cannot avoid the conclusion that foreign trade had reached an unprecedented level [from Siraf] and now included direct contact with China". The discovery in 1998 of the Belitung shipwreck, a Central Asian-in-origin ship, dated to ~826 by experts, and whose salvaged collection of Chinese (Tang Dynasty) trade ceramics is now on display in Singapore's Asian Civilisations Museum, proves his conclusion correct.

Later life Having battled for a short time with cancer, Whitehouse died on 17 February 2013.

Personal life Whitehouse married Ruth Delamain Ainger in 1963. In October 1975, he married Elizabeth-Anne Ollemans in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS).

Selected works Whitehouse wrote or edited more than 500 scholarly papers, reviews, monographs, and books. The following are a selection of those.

Whitehouse, D. and Whitehouse, R. 1975. Archaeological atlas of the world. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman. Whitehouse, D. 1988. Glass of the Roman Empire. Corning, N.Y. : Corning Museum of Glass. Whitehouse, D. 2000. The Corning Museum of Glass: a decade of glass collecting, 1990–1999. Corning, N.Y.: The Museum: New York.

Whitehouse, D. 2012. Glass: A Short History. London: British Museum Press.