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| name = Hornblower
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| honorific_suffix = OBE BA FSA
| image = File:Hornblower,_George_Davis.jpg
| birth_date = 1864
| death_date = 1951
| address = 4 Meadway Gate, Golders Green, NW<br />[and] Mount's Bay Hotel, Penzance, Cornwall [census]<br />Union Hotel, Penzance, Cornwall [1949]| occupation = anthropologist<br />archaeologist<br />civil service
| elected_ESL =
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| elected_LAS =
| membership = ordinary fellow
| left = 1951 deceased| clubs = Athenaeum Club| societies = Society of Antiquaries<br />Egypt Exploration Society
}}
== Notes ==
RAI Council 1928 Hon. Treasurer<br />RAI Council 1929 Hon. Treasurer<br />RAI Council 1930-31 Hon. Treasurer<br />RAI Council 1931-32 Hon. Treasurer<br />RAI Council 1932-33 Hon. Treasurer<br />RAI Council 1933-34 Hon. Treasurer<br />RAI Council 1934-35 Hon. Treasurer<br />RAI Council 1935-36 Hon. Treasurer<br />RAI Council 1936-37 Hon. Treasurer<br />RAI Council 1937-38 Hon. Treasurer<br />RAI Council 1938-39 Member<br />RAI Council 1940-41 Member<br />RAI Council 1944-45 Member<br />RAI Council 1945-46 Member<br />RAI Council 1946-47 Member
=== House Notes ===
1923.06.26 proposed by C.G. Seligman, seconded by W.M. F. Petrie 26 June 1923<br />books donated 1951 see A32<br /><br />1951.06.05 death noted
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
George Davis Hornblower was at one time an official in the Egyptian Ministry of the Interior where he became interested in Egyptology; he was also interested in Anthropology which strongly influenced his work on Predynastic Egypt and Egyptian religion. He wrote a number of articles on Predynastic subjects such as 'Funerary Designs on Predynastic Jars' and Foundations of Ancient Egyptian Religion'. During the Second World War he took up residence at the Mount's Bay Hotel in Penzance and over the years gave many Egyptian and other objects to the Royal Cornwall Museum.<br />George Davis Hornblower (anthropologist; archaeologist; official; British; Male; 1864 - 1951)<br />George Davis Hornblower developed his interest in Egyptology during his time in the Egyptian Ministry of the Interior and collected many artefacts during this period. His main interest was in the anthropology and religion of Ancient Egypt, particularly the Predynastic and Early Dynastic period which he wrote fourteen articles on, many of which were published in the journal produced by the Egypt Exploration Society, the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. <br />In late September 1939 he was admitted to a private hospital in England. Given this and the onset of World War II, he felt that it would be necessary to leave his London home and put his furniture into storage. He had by this point already marked out a number of objects that were intended to go to the Fitzwilliam Museum upon his death but given the circumstances he felt it wise to present them to the museum in 1939<br />
=== House Publications ===
85. Early Dragon-Forms; by G. D. Hornblower. Man Vol. 33 (May, 1933)
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
Library books<br />census<br />name on benefactors board
=== Other Material ===
Fitzwilliam Almost 350 small antiquities were presented to the museum<br />BM, PRM
