1. Major General Richard William Howard Howard Vyse was a British soldier and Egyptologist.
22 Facts About Howard Vyse
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Howard Vyse was Member of Parliament for Beverley and Honiton.
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Richard William Howard Vyse assumed the additional name of Howard by royal sign-manual in September 1812 and became Richard William Howard Howard Vyse on inheriting the estates of Boughton and Pitsford in Northamptonshire through his maternal grandmother, Lucy, daughter of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford.
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Howard Vyse married, 13 November 1810 Frances, second daughter of Henry Hesketh of Newton, Cheshire.
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Howard Vyse's will was proved on 13 August 1853 at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
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Howard Vyse joined the British Army in 1800, being commissioned as a cornet in the 1st Dragoons on 5 May On 17 June the following year he transferred to the 15th Light Dragoons and was promoted to lieutenant.
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Howard Vyse transferred regiments again in 1815, becoming a captain in the 87th Regiment of Foot on 31 August that year.
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Howard Vyse then joined the 2nd Life Guards in the same rank on 5 July 1816, before being promoted to substantive major on 4 January 1819, in the 1st West India Regiment.
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Howard Vyse purchased a majority back into the 2nd Life Guards a month later on 4 February, and on 13 May 1820 was made a brevet lieutenant-colonel, serving as an equerry to Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland.
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Howard Vyse purchased a substantive lieutenant-colonelcy, unattached to any regiment, on 10 September 1825.
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From this stage Howard Vyse served on half pay, being promoted to colonel on 10 January 1837 and major-general on 9 November 1846.
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Howard Vyse was elected to Parliament for Beverley in Yorkshire, a borough whose elections were frequently contested, in 1807.
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In October 1812, Howard Vyse exchanged his seat at Beverley for Honiton in Devonshire.
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On this occasion Howard Vyse was elected unopposed as the potential third candidate, Samuel Colleton Graves, of Hembury Fort, near Honiton, invited to stand, chose instead to stand elsewhere.
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Howard Vyse held this seat until the dissolution of Parliament in 1818.
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Howard Vyse served as High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1830.
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Howard Vyse first visited Egypt in 1835 and in 1836 joined the excavations of Giovanni Battista Caviglia at Giza.
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Howard Vyse found Caviglia "unproductive" and in 1837 teamed with engineer John Shae Perring in an effort to explore and document the pyramids.
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Howard Vyse therefore blasted straight up on the northern side, over three and a half months, finding four additional chambers.
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Howard Vyse discovered numerous graffiti in the chambers dating from the time the pyramids were built.
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Howard Vyse depicts a partial Khufu cartouche on the North side of the chamber.
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Howard Vyse had the graffiti copied by his assistant, JR Hill, and sent them to Samuel Birch, the Keeper of Antiquities at the British Museum who, at the time, was one of the very few scholars able to translate Egyptian hieroglyphs.