Norris, Edwin (1795–1872), linguist and Assyriologist, was born on 24 October 1795 in Taunton, Somerset, the son of a printer from a prominent local family that migrated from Devon in the sixteenth century. He was educated at a local school where the headmaster was his uncle ...
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Norris, Edwin (1795–1872), linguist and Assyriologist
R. S. Simpson
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Thompson, Reginald Campbell (1876–1941), Assyriologist and archaeologist
Clyde Curry Smith
Thompson, Reginald Campbell (1876–1941), Assyriologist and archaeologist, was born on 21 August 1876 at Cranley Place, South Kensington, London, the eldest of four sons and one daughter of Reginald Edward Thompson (1834–1912), physician, and his wife, Anna Isabella De Morgan (1845–1885), daughter of the mathematician ...
