Arthur Dale Trendall

Who was Arthur Dale Trendall?

Arthur Dale Trendall AC CMG was a New Zealand-born Australian art historian and classical archaeologist whose work on identifying the work of individual artists on Greek ceramic vessels at Apulia and other sites earned him international prizes and a papal knighthood. Educated at the University of Otago and the University of Cambridge, Trendall was professionally associated with the University of Sydney and Australian National University. He was Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Master of University House at the latter institution.

In World War II he was a cryptographer at FRUMEL in Melbourne.