Guy Brunton
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Guy Brunton OBE
(1878 in London
, England
– 17 October 1948 in White River, Mpumalanga
, South Africa
) was an English
archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the Badarian culture. He married Winifred Newberry
on 28 April 1906. Her father built Prynnsberg Estate
.
A student of Sir Flinders Petrie, Brunton became Assistant Director of the Egyptian Museum
in Cairo
in 1931.
Order of the British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...
(1878 in London
London
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, England
England
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– 17 October 1948 in White River, Mpumalanga
White River, Mpumalanga
White River is a small holiday and farming town situated just north of Nelspruit in Mpumalanga, South Africa. The farms in the region produce tropical fruits, vegetables, flowers and timber. After the Boer War the British demarcated land on the Emanzimhlope River, a tributary of the Limpopo River....
, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
) was an English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the Badarian culture. He married Winifred Newberry
Winifred Brunton
Winifred Mabel Brunton née Newberry was a painter most famous for her portraits of Egyptian pharaohs, published as Kings and Queens of Ancient Egypt and Great Ones of Ancient Egypt . She married Egyptologist Guy Brunton on 28 April 1906...
on 28 April 1906. Her father built Prynnsberg Estate
Prynnsberg Estate
Prynnsberg was a manor built between 1881 and 1884 in Clocolan, Free State, South Africa by Charles Newberry who immigrated to South Africa in 1864 as a carpenter to join his older brother John, mining in Greytown and eventually gained enough holdings in the Kimberly diamond mining industry to...
.
A student of Sir Flinders Petrie, Brunton became Assistant Director of the Egyptian Museum
Egyptian Museum
The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, known commonly as the Egyptian Museum, in Cairo, Egypt, is home to an extensive collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities. It has 120,000 items, with a representative amount on display, the remainder in storerooms....
in Cairo
Cairo
Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...
in 1931.
Publications
- Qau and Badari (with chapters by Sir Alan Henderson Gardiner, and W. M. Flinders Petrie), London British School of Archaeology in Egypt, University College, Gower Street, W.C. & Bernard Quaritch, 11 Grafton Street, New Bond Street W., 1927.