Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology
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The Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology is a university professorial chair held at University College London
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of the Egyptian Exploration Fund in 1892, who bequeathing her collection of Egyptian antiquities to University College London, together with a sum of £2,500 to found an Edwards Chair of Egyptology. Her protege, William Matthew Flinders Petrie, was the first to take the chair.
University College London
University College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...
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History
The Chair was founded on the death of Amelia EdwardsAmelia Edwards
Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards was an English novelist, journalist, traveller and Egyptologist.Born in London to an Irish mother and a father who had been a British Army officer before becoming a banker, Edwards was educated at home by her mother, showing considerable promise as a writer at a young age...
of the Egyptian Exploration Fund in 1892, who bequeathing her collection of Egyptian antiquities to University College London, together with a sum of £2,500 to found an Edwards Chair of Egyptology. Her protege, William Matthew Flinders Petrie, was the first to take the chair.
Incumbents
- Professor Sir William Matthew Flinders PetrieWilliam Matthew Flinders PetrieWilliam Matthew Flinders Petrie FRS , commonly known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and preservation of artifacts...
, 1892–1933 - Stephen GlanvilleStephen GlanvilleStephen Ranulph Kingdon Glanville, MBE was an English historian and egyptologist.-Biography:S R K Glanville was born in Westminster, London, the eldest son of Stephen James Glanville and Nannie Elizabeth . He was first cousin to Frank Kingdon-Ward the explorer and botanist and also related to...
, 1934–1946 - Walter Bryan Emery
- Harry S. Smith
- Geoffrey Thorndike MartinGeoffrey Thorndike MartinGeoffrey Thorndike Martin is an egyptologist, Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology Emeritus, University College, London, Joint Field Director of the Amarna Royal Tombs Project and fellow commoner of Christ's College, Cambridge.-Biography:Martin was born in London. He attended...
, 1988-93 - John W. TaitJohn W. TaitJohn W. Tait is a British Edwards Professor of Egyptology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, and was the head of the department till 2010. He received his Ph.D in Egyptian and Greek Papyrology from the University of Oxford. His research focuses on Ancient Egyptian...
(present incumbent)