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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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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Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford (1831–1892), author and Egyptologist
Deborah Manley
Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford (1831–1892), author and Egyptologist, was born in Colebrook Row, Islington, London, on 7 June 1831, the only child of Thomas Edwards (1786–1860), a half-pay army officer who later worked for the Provincial Bank of Ireland in London, and Alicia Walpole (...
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Haliburton [Haleburton; formerly Burton], James (1788–1862), Egyptologist
Neil M. R. Cooke
Haliburton [Haleburton; formerly Burton], James (1788–1862), Egyptologist, was born on 22 September 1788 at Crescent Place, Bloomsbury, London, the fourth of the twelve children of James Burton (1761–1837), a successful speculative builder, and Elizabeth (1761–1837), daughter of John Westley of Loughton, Essex, and his wife, ...
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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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Murray, Margaret Alice (1863–1963), Egyptologist and folklorist
Max Mallowan
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Murray, Margaret Alice (1863–1963), Egyptologist and folklorist, was born in Calcutta on 13 July 1863, the younger daughter of James Charles Murray (d. 1891) and his wife, Margaret Carr (d. 1913?). James Murray, whose family had been in India for several generations, was managing partner of a firm of ...
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Petrie, Sir (William Matthew) Flinders (1853–1942), Egyptologist
Margaret S. Drower
Petrie, Sir (William Matthew) Flinders (1853–1942), Egyptologist, was born at Ecclesbourne Cottage, Maryon Road, Charlton, near Greenwich, on 3 June 1853, the only child of William Petrie (1821–1908) and his wife, Anne (1812–1892), the daughter of Captain Matthew Flinders RN, the navigator and explorer of ...
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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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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 ...
