John Ronald Lidster

John Ronald Lidster (1916–2008) was a British artist, archaeologist and curator based in Yorkshire.

Biography Lidster was born in Hull in 1916 and moved to Scarborough as a child. the artefacts from which are now in the Yorkshire Museum. Lidster created detailed paintings of the landscapes in which the barrows are situated. He and William Lamplough also led excavations for the Scarborough and District Archaeological Society in 1951 at the site of King Alfred's Cave (Ebberston, North Yorkshire).

Lidster acted as the first secretary of the recently founded Scarborough Geological Society in the 1950s

In 1950, Lidster worked as a technician and, later, as the Assistant Curator of the Wood End Museum in Scarborough. The diagrams produced by Lidster of the Cantley kilns were used in 1962 as the basis for an experimental archaeology project to reconstruct and fire a replica of Cantley Kiln 31.

Publications Lamplough, W.H. and Lidster, J. R. 1959. "The Excavation of King Alfrid's Cave, Ebberston", Transactions of the Scarborough Archaeological and Historical Society Vol 55. pp 16–31. Lamplough, W. H. and Lidster, J. R. 1960. "The Excavation of the Kirkless Barrow", Transactions of the Scarborough Archaeological and Historical Society (New Series) Vol. 3. pp 29–32.