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John Gardner Wilkinson | |
Son of Rev John Wilkinson. |
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Date (from) | (Date to) | Event |
5 October 1797 | | Born (Little Missenden, Buckinghamshire). |
1816 | 1818 | Exeter College, Oxford (left without a degree). |
18?? | | Joined army. |
1821 | 1833 | In Egypt. |
1837 | | Published 'Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians. (first series). |
1839 | | Knighted. |
1841 | 1842 | In Egypt. |
1841 | | Published 'Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians. (second series). |
1843 | 1844 | In Egypt. |
1848 | | In Egypt. |
1852 | | D.C.L. (Doctor of Civic Law), Oxford. |
1855 | 1856 | In Egypt. |
1856 | | Married Caloline Catherine Lucas (1822-1881), actress and botanist. |
29 October 1875 | | Died (Llandovery, Wales). |
Wilkinson was 'the father of British Egyptology' While in Egypt he learned Coptic and Arabic, studies hieroglyphics, and surveyed the Valley of the Kings and Thebes. He developed a chronology of the New Kindom dynasties as Thebes. |
Literature: (Thompson). |