Bell, Sir (Harold) Idris (1879–1967), papyrologist and scholar of Welsh literature, was born on 2 October 1879 at Epworth, Lincolnshire, the son of Charles Christopher Bell (b. 1845), chemist, and his wife, Rachel Hughes (d. 1880). His father's family had been yeoman farmers in the north midlands and had marked literary leanings, his father not least; but the Welsh inheritance from his mother meant more to ...
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Bell, Sir (Harold) Idris (1879–1967), papyrologist and scholar of Welsh literature
C. H. Roberts
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Bell, Sir (Harold) Idris (1879–1967)
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Sir (Harold) Idris Bell (1879–1967) by Walter Stoneman, 1955 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Belzoni, Giovanni Battista (1778–1823)
Maker: Maxim Gauci
Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778–1823) by Maxim Gauci, pubd 1821 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Belzoni, Giovanni Battista (1778–1823), performing artist and Egyptologist
Peta Rée
Belzoni, Giovanni Battista (1778–1823), performing artist and Egyptologist, was born on 5 November 1778 in Padua, the son of a barber, Giacomo Belzoni, and his wife, Teresa. He went to Rome aged sixteen to prepare himself for monastic orders; he claimed also to have studied hydraulics. The French invasion of ...
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Birch, Samuel (1813–1885), Egyptologist
T. G. H. James
Birch, Samuel (1813–1885), Egyptologist, was born on 3 November 1813 in Northampton Square, London, eldest son of the Revd Samuel Birch (1780?–1848), rector of St Mary Woolnoth, later a prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral and vicar of Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire, and his wife, ...
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Bonomi, Joseph (1796–1878), sculptor and Egyptologist
Peter Meadows
Bonomi, Joseph (1796–1878), sculptor and Egyptologist, and his twin sister, Mary Anne Bonomi (1796–1872), were born at 76 Great Titchfield Street, London, on 9 October 1796, the eighth and ninth but fourth and fifth surviving children of Joseph (Giuseppe) Bonomi (1739–1808), architect, and ...
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Edwards, (Iorwerth) Eiddon Stephen (1909–1996), Egyptologist
H. S. Smith
Edwards, (Iorwerth) Eiddon Stephen (1909–1996), Egyptologist, was born on 21 July 1909 at 57 Lightfoot Road, Hornsey, London, the second of the two children of Edward Edwards (1870–1944), Persian scholar on the staff of the department of oriental manuscripts at the British Museum...
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Emery, (Walter) Bryan (1903–1971), Egyptologist
H. S. Smith
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Emery, (Walter) Bryan (1903–1971), Egyptologist, was born on 2 July 1903 at Liverpool, the second son of Walter Thomas Emery, principal of the technical college at Liverpool, and his wife, Beatrice Mary Benbow, also of Liverpool. He was educated at St Francis Xavier's College, Liverpool...
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Goodwin, Charles Wycliffe (1817–1878), Egyptologist
Francis Espinasse
revised by Josef L. Altholz
Goodwin, Charles Wycliffe (1817–1878), Egyptologist, was born on 2 April 1817 at 2 Bridge Street, King's Lynn, Norfolk. He was the eldest of four sons of a solicitor, Charles Goodwin (d. 1859), and his wife, Frances Catherine, née Sawyer (d. 1825)...
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Herbert, George Edward Stanhope Molyneux, fifth earl of Carnarvon (1866–1923), sportsman and Egyptologist
Brian Fagan
Herbert, George Edward Stanhope Molyneux, fifth earl of Carnarvon (1866–1923), sportsman and Egyptologist, was born at Highclere Castle, near Newbury, Berkshire, on 26 June 1866, the only son of Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, fourth earl of Carnarvon (1831–1890), Conservative politician, and his first wife, ...
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Herbert, George Edward Stanhope Molyneux, fifth earl of Carnarvon (1866–1923)
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George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, fifth earl of Carnarvon (1866–1923) by unknown photographer Griffith Institute, Oxford
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Hunt, Arthur Surridge (1871–1934), papyrologist
H. I. Bell
revised by R. S. Simpson
Hunt, Arthur Surridge (1871–1934), papyrologist, was born at Romford, Essex, on 1 March 1871, the eldest son and third of eight children of Alfred Henry Hunt, solicitor, later of Romford Hall, and his wife, Emily Pertwee. His father belonged to an old Essex...
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Poole, (Reginald) Stuart (1832–1895)
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(Reginald) Stuart Poole (1832–1895) by unknown engraver, pubd 1895 (after Elliott & Fry) © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Poole, (Reginald) Stuart (1832–1895), numismatist and Egyptologist
M. L. Caygill
Poole, (Reginald) Stuart (1832–1895), numismatist and Egyptologist, was born in the parish of St Lawrence, Jewry, London on 27 February 1832, the younger son of the Revd Edward Richard Poole (b.1803) and Sophia Lane Poole (1804–1891), sister of Edward William Lane...
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Renouf, Sir Peter Le Page (1822–1897), Egyptologist and religious writer
Josef L. Altholz
Renouf, Sir Peter Le Page (1822–1897), Egyptologist and religious writer, was born on 23 August 1822 at St Peter Port, Guernsey, the son of Joseph Renouf, schoolmaster, and his wife, Mary, daughter of John Le Page. He was educated from 1831 at Elizabeth College, Guernsey...
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Sharpe, Samuel (1799–1881), Egyptologist and biblical scholar
Alexander Gordon
revised by M. L. Bierbrier
Sharpe, Samuel (1799–1881), Egyptologist and biblical scholar, second of the six children of Sutton Sharpe (1756–1806), brewer of King Street and of 10 Nottingham Place, Marylebone, Middlesex, and his second wife, Maria (d. 1806), third daughter of Thomas Rogers, banker, was born in ...
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Tattam, Henry (1788–1868), Church of England clergyman and Coptic scholar
Thompson Cooper
revised by Chris Pickford
Tattam, Henry (1788–1868), Church of England clergyman and Coptic scholar, was born on 28 December 1788 at Church Farm, North Marston, Buckinghamshire, the youngest child of John Tattam (b. 1740?), a yeoman farmer, and his wife, Jane, née Gurney (b. 1743?)...
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Vyse, Richard William Howard (1784–1853), army officer and Egyptologist
E. I. Carlyle
revised by H. C. G. Matthew
Vyse, Richard William Howard (1784–1853), army officer and Egyptologist, born on 25 July 1784, was the only son of General Richard Vyse and his second wife, Anne (only surviving daughter and heir of Field Marshal Sir George Howard), whom he married on 20 May 1780....
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Wilkins, David (1685–1745), Coptic scholar
Alastair Hamilton
Wilkins, David (1685–1745), Coptic scholar, was born of Prussian parentage in Memel, Lithuania, on 11 June 1685. His original name was Wilke, which he Latinized as Wilkius and Anglicized into Wilkins. Little is known about his education in Germany (probably in Berlin) or how he acquired his knowledge of ancient and Semitic languages, which was extensive rather than profound. He referred to the antiquarian ...
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Wilkinson, Sir John Gardner (1797–1875), Egyptologist
Jason Thompson
Wilkinson, Sir John Gardner (1797–1875), Egyptologist, born on 5 October 1797, probably at Little Missenden Abbey, Buckinghamshire, and baptized at Chelsea, London, on 17 January 1798, was the only surviving child of the Revd John Wilkinson and his wife, Mary Anne, daughter of the ...
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