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| ALAN GARDINER 1879 - 1963 |
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| Dr Alan Gardiner was an internationally renowned Egyptologist whose work on script and philology seemed likely to suffer no interruption from the war. In 1915 he deciphered a previously unknown Egyptian alphabet, but by 1916 was facing conscription as a conscientious objector. Most likely going before the Kensington Tribunal, he was passed exempt on the condition he undertook Work of National Importance (WNI). Though he was a Reader in Egyptology at the University of Manchester, it seems that he spent the war much closer to his home in Holland Park. It is unknown what work he undertook, but he consistently published works on Egyptian Archaeology and Hieroglyphics from 1916-1920, suggesting he may have been allowed to continue as an academic, or, despite undertaking WNI he somehow found the time to write and research! Dr Gardiner died in 1963 and is remembered as a key figure in the history of Egyptology. His family include the pacifist, communist and poet Margaret Gardiner, his daughter.
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