Stephen Glanville

Stephen Glanville

Stephen Ranulph Kingdon Glanville, MBE (April 26, 1900 - April 26, 1956) was an English Egyptologist.

Biography

S R K Glanville was born in Westminster, London, the eldest son of Stephen James Glanville and Nannie Elizabeth (née Kingdon). He was first cousin to Frank Kingdon-Ward the explorer and botanist and also related to William Kingdon Clifford the mathematician. He was educated at Marlborough and at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. He gained his BA in 1922 and his MA in 1926.

He worked for the Egyptian Government Service in 1922 before joining the Egypt Exploration Society expedition to el-Amarna in 1923. Glanville studied Egyptology under Francis Llewellyn Griffith and was appointed Assistant in the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum in 1924. Glanville excavated again at el-Amarna in 1925, and at Armant in 1928. In 1925 he married Ethel Mary Chubb.

He was Laycock Student of Egyptology at Worcester College, Oxford, between 1929-1935 and Reader in Egyptology from 1933-1935. Sir Flinders Petrie having retired, Glanville was appointed Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology at University College London in 1935, holding the chair until 1946.:'Demotic studies'.The first volume of his catalogue of demotic papyri in the Britishmuseum was published in 1939 and the last volume only a fortnight before his death. Though primarily a demotist he was also a first class archaeologist with a rare feeling for antiquities.

Royal Institution Christmas Lectures for children in 1929-30 theme "How things were done in ancient Egypt". Elaborated into a book "Daily life in ancient Egypt."

1933 - 1935 he was a reader in Egyptology in the University of London. In 1935 elected Edwards Professor of Egyptology at university college, and a fellow of the British Academy in 1946.

During the Second World War, Glanville served with the Royal Air Force (Air Staff). He reached the rank of Wing Commander, and was awarded the M.B.E. and Czechoslovak, Dutch, and Yugoslav orders.

Returning to academic life, Glanville was a fellow, 1946-54, and served as Provost, 1954-6, of King's College, Cambridge, and Sir Herbert Thompson Professor of Egyptology at the University of Cambridge from 1946 until his death in Cambridge on his 56th birthday, April 26, 1956.

He was Honorary Secretary, 1928-31 and 1933-6, and Chairman of Committee, 1951-6, of the Egypt Exploration Society.

He was a fellow, 1946-54, and Provost, 1954-6, of King's College, Cambridge, this was the first time in 500 years that an Oxford man had been elected provost.

The Herbert Thompson chair of Egyptology was created in 1946 particularly to cover Demotic and Coptic studies for which SRKG had established an unequalled reputation. He was therefore the obvious choice for the first holder.

He was editor of "The Legacy of Egypt", one of the Claridon "Legacy" series, and besides his "Growth and Nature of Egyptology" which was published in 1947, wrote a large number of essays and papers.

He died in Cambridge, England, on his 56th birthday.

Publications

This is by no means a complete list.

*1930 'Daily Life in Ancient Egypt'
*1933 'The Egyptians' "A&C Black"
*1939 'Catalogue of the demotic papyri in the British Museum. Vol 1.'
*1942 'The Legacy of Egypt' "Claridon Legacy series"
*1947 'Growth and nature of Egyptology'
*1956 'Catalogue of the demotic papyri in the British Museum. Vol 2.'

Publication date unknown: Glanville S.R.K. and Faulkner, R. O., Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in The British Museum II: Wooden Model Boats. Trustees of The British Museum, London 1972.

ources

*Obituary in the Daily Telegraph. 28.04.1956 Prof. S.R.K. Glanville. Antiquities of Egypt
*Also see below external links.

External links

* [http://www.oriental.cam.ac.uk/archive/glanville.html University of Cambridge entry for SRKG.]
*http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/archive.asp?fellowsID=1667


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