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Lexicon Baker Scholars _____________________________________________________ A select group of South Africans that were the recipients of the Baker Scholarship to the British School at Rome From 1912 onwards, the scholarships have been awarded to: 1912 Gordon LEITH 1914 Gerhard MOERDIJK [Scholarship not taken up due to WWI] 1925 CD St LEGER 1921 Leonard McCONNELL [Scholarship awarded, but possibly not resident at BSR.] 1929 Norman EATON 1933 Robert A BRUCE 1939 Lyall WATSON 1949 Jack BARNETT 1956 G HERBERT [Scholarship awarded, but possibly not resident at BSR.] 1957 R ERITH [Scholarship awarded, but possibly not resident at BSR.] 1961 J BEINART Furthermore, Ms. Sarah Court from the British School at Rome states in her research: The following are mentioned in notes in amongst the files looked at. It is believed that they were from South Africa. However, there is no indication that they were scholars or indeed that they visited BSR. [While they were Rome Scholars they were not recipients of Baker Scholarship – see British School at Rome] 1912 JM SOLOMON c. 1914 VS REES POOLE 1924 JA HOOGSTERP 1925 HG WARD 1939 D Lyall WATSON [in this case the information from the SAIA yearbooks contradicts the information as received from the BSR] Extracted and edited from an electronic document authored by Prof Paul KOTZE.