Stephen Glanville was Edwards Professor of Egyptology at University College London from 1935 to 1946.
14 Facts About Stephen Glanville
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Stephen Glanville was then Sir Herbert Thompson Professor of Egyptology at the University of Cambridge from 1946 until his death in 1956, and additionally Provost of King's College, Cambridge from 1954.
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Stephen Glanville was first cousin to Frank Kingdon-Ward the explorer and botanist and related to William Kingdon Clifford the mathematician.
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Stephen Glanville was educated at Marlborough and at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he read Modern History.
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Stephen Glanville gained his BA in 1922 and his MA in 1926.
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Stephen Glanville worked for the Egyptian Government Service in 1922 before joining the Egypt Exploration Society expedition to el-Amarna in 1923.
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Stephen Glanville excavated again at el-Amarna in 1925, and at Armant in 1928.
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Stephen Glanville was the sister of Mary Chubb, the writer about archaeology.
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Sir Flinders Petrie having retired, Stephen Glanville was appointed Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology at University College London in 1935, holding the chair until 1946.
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Stephen Glanville was therefore the obvious choice for the first holder.
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Stephen Glanville was editor of The Legacy of Egypt, one of the Clarendon "Legacy" series, and besides his "Growth and Nature of Egyptology" which was published in 1947, wrote a large number of essays and papers.
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Stephen Glanville died in Cambridge, England, on his 56th birthday, and is buried in Grantchester Parish Churchyard.
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Stephen Glanville was a close friend of the archaeologist Max Mallowan and his wife Agatha Christie.
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Stephen Glanville was the source and inspiration for at least two of Christie's works, the historic mystery Death Comes as the End, and a play, Akhnaton.