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'''William Mathew Flinders Petrie'''
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AI Council 1902 Member<br />AI Council 1903 Member<br />AI Council 1904 Member<br />AI Council 1906 Member<br />AI Council 1907 Member<br />AI Council 1908 Member<br />AI Council 1922 Member<br />AI Council 1923 Member<br />AI Council 1924 Member
=== House Notes ===
1900.04.24 proposed<br />Edwards Professor of Egyptology<br />neighbour of Karl Pearson<br /><br />1906 HML Migrations Delivered 1st Nov. at Burlington House<br />death noted in the report of the council 1942-43<br />obituary in Man43, 9
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, FRS[2] (3 June 1853 – 28 July 1942), commonly known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and preservation of artifacts. He held the first chair of Egyptology in the United Kingdom, and excavated many of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt in conjunction with his wife, Hilda Petrie.[3] Some consider his most famous discovery to be that of the Merneptah Stele,[4] an opinion with which Petrie himself concurred.[5] Petrie developed the system of dating layers based on pottery and ceramic findings.[6]<br /><br />Born Charlton, near Greenwich; died Jerusalem. His maternal grandfather was Captain Matthew Flinders, the explorer of Australia. Early work in Egypt funded by Egypt Exploration Fund, wealthy patrons and the Palestine Exploration Fund. Very numerous publications. Edwards Professor of Egyptology, UCL, 1892-1933. Honorary degrees from Oxford, Edinburgh, Strasbourg and Cambridge. Knighted 1923.<br />