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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.
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in the British museum 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.
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He was Honorary Secretary, 1928–31 and 1933–6, and Chairman of Committee, 1951–6, of the Egypt Exploration Society.
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Returning to academic life, Glanville was a fellow, 1946–54. In 1954, he "became the first Oxford man to become
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for children in 1929-30 theme "How things were done in ancient Egypt". Elaborated into a book,
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and was appointed Assistant in the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the
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from 1946 until his death in Cambridge on his 56th birthday, 26 April 1956.
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that neither of these works would have been possible without Glanville.
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in 1928. In 1925 he married Ethel Mary Chubb. She was the sister of
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1956 Catalogue of the demotic papyri in the British Museum. Vol 2.
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1939 Catalogue of the demotic papyri in the British Museum. Vol 1.
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1942 The Legacy of Egypt, Oxford, Clarendon Press, Legacy series
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in 1924. Glanville excavated again at el-Amarna in 1925, and at
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Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology
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from 1946 until his death in 1956, and additionally
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historian
egyptologist
Edwards Professor of Egyptology
University College London
Sir Herbert Thompson Professor of Egyptology
University of Cambridge
Provost
King's College, Cambridge
Westminster
London
Frank Kingdon-Ward
William Kingdon Clifford
Marlborough
Lincoln College, Oxford
Egyptian Government Service
Egypt Exploration Society
el-Amarna
Egyptology
Francis Llewellyn Griffith
British Museum
Armant
Mary Chubb

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