first paper three years earlier. Chadwick's philological ideas were applied to Ventris's initial theory that Linear B was an early form of Greek rather than another Mediterranean language. After Ventris's death, Chadwick became the figurehead of the Linear B work, writing the accessible and popular book The Decipherment of Linear B in 1958 and revising Documents in Mycenean Greek in 1978. He retired in 1984, by which time he had become the fourth (and last) Perceval Maitland Laurence Reader in Classics at Cambridge. He continued his scholarship until his death, being an active member of several international societies and writing numerous popular and academic articles. He was also a Fellow of the British Academy and of Downing College, Cambridge. Family Chadwick married Joan Hill in 1947 and they had one son, Camden Chadwick. Publications Decorations and awards 1992: Austrian Decoration for Science and Art 1997: International Antonio Feltrinelli Prize See also Mycenaean Greek, Mycenaean Greece Michael Ventris References 1920 births 1998 deaths People from East Sheen Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge English classical scholars Linguists from England English archaeologists English philologists People educated at St Paul's School, London Bletchley Park people Scholars of Mycenaean Greek Hellenic epigraphers Place of death missing Fellows of Downing College, Cambridge Fellows of the British Academy Recipients of the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art Classical philologists Members of the University of Cambridge faculty of classics Royal Navy officers of World War II Contributors to the Oxford Classical Dictionary