Richard Reece

Richard Marsden Reece, FSA (born 1939) is a numismatist and retired academic.[1]

Reece completed a degree in biochemistry at University College London in 1961, before moving to Wadham College, Oxford, where he completed a diploma in education the following year and then a doctor of philosophy degree in 1972. He taught at St John's School in Leatherhead for three years before becoming Head of Chemistry at St George’s School in Harpenden in 1966. He left teaching two years later, and then joined the London Institute of Archaeology as a lecturer in 1970. Promoted to a senior lectureship in 1981, he returned to University College London in 1994 to take up a readership in Late Roman archaeology and numismatics. He has been an emeritus reader at UCL since retiring in 1999.[1][2]

Honours and awards

Reece was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1968, and was made an honorary fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society in 2003. The RNS presented him with their medal six years later; in 2014 he was awarded the British Academy's Derek Allen Prize.[1]

References
  1. "Reece, Richard Marsden", Who's Who (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  2. "Emeritus", UCL. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
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