[3] Admitted in 1892 as a student at the British School at Athens (BSA) – where he was an approximate contemporary of the archaeologist John Linton Myres – he was among the first to lead excavations at the Minoan seaside town of Palaikastro on Crete, from 1902 to 1905.

He ran other important excavations on newly independent Crete, at Praisos, between 1901 and 1902, and initiated the School's major campaigns at Sparta on the Greek mainland.

He organised fieldwork on the Roman military sites of Caerleon and Caersws for the short-lived Committee for Excavation and Research in Wales and the Marches, alongside Myres, who was then his colleague at Liverpool.

[7] After wartime service between 1915 and 1917 in hospital organisation and relief work in Albania, Corfu and Salonica, Bosanquet retired from teaching at Liverpool in 1920.

He became a respected local archaeologist, but published little of his great store of knowledge on the nature and date of Roman imports north of the frontiers in Britain, Holland, Germany and Denmark.