  professor william francis grimes (known as peter) (31 october 1905 â 25 december 1988) was a welsh archaeologist. he devoted his career to the archaeology of london and the prehistory of wales. he was awarded a cbe in 1955."who's who 1980", published by a&c black limited 1980 ==early life== grimes was born in pembroke in wales. his father was a draughtsman with the pembroke docks board. he was educated at pembroke county school and then at bedford modern school"bedford modern school of the black and red", by andrew underwood 1981 after his father moved to bedford to work as a draughtsman on airships. grimes returned to wales in 1923 to study latin at the university college of south wales and monmouthshire in cardiff, where his lecturers included mortimer wheeler and cyril fox. wheeler was also keeper and then from 1923 director of the national museum of wales. grimes graduated with first-class honours in 1926. ==career== wheeler moved to become director of the london museum in 1926, and cyril fox replaced him as director of the national museum of wales. grimes became an assistant keeper of archaeology at the national museum of wales, working with the newly appointed keeper of archaeology, victor erle nash-williams. he received an ma from the university of wales in 1930 for a dissertation on the roman pottery from the 20th legion's works at holt (then in denbighshire). he became interested in the prehistory of wales, and was involved in excavations at pyle, ludchurch, corston beacon and llanboidy. he became a fellow of the society of antiquaries of london in 1934. he published a book on the prehistory of wales in 1939, guide to the collection illustrating the prehistory of wales, which won the cambrian archaeological association's g. t. clark prize in 1949. the book was republished as the prehistory of wales in 1951, and a second edition followed in 1959. he met mrs audrey williams in 1935, while preparing an exhibition in swansea for the centenary of the royal institution of south wales. they went on to work together at many excavations in wales and elsewhere, and were later married. grimes moved to southampton in 1938 to become an assistant archaeology officer with the ordnance survey, and was quickly involved in the excavation of the newly discovered ship burial at sutton hoo the following year. he was seconded to the ministry of works in the second world war, and worked with audrey williams on quick surveys and excavations before the construction of new airfields and other military structures. his discoveries included an iron age religious site at
1905_births 1988_deaths Academics_of_the_UCL_Institute_of_Archaeology People_educated_at_Bedford_Modern_School People_from_Pembrokeshire Welsh_archaeologists