GEORGE

See also:

• ROBINS, BENJAMIN (1707–1751)

ROBINS

See also:

• GEORGE ROBINS GLIDDON (1809-1857)

GLIDDON (1809-1857)  , British Egyptologist, was born in Devonshire in 1809 . His father, a merchant, was United States consul at Alexandria, and there Gliddon was taken at an early age . He became United States vice-consul, and took a great interest in Egyptian antiquities . Subsequently he lectured in the United States and succeeded in rousing considerable attention to the subject of Egyptology generally . He died at Panama in 1857 . His chief work was Ancient Egypt (1850, ed . 1853) . He wrote also Memoir on the Cotton of Egypt (1841); Appeal to the Antiquaries of Europe on the Destruction of the Monuments of Egypt (1841) ; Discourses on Egyptian Archaeology (1841); Types of Mankind (1854), in conjunction with J . C . Nott and others; Indigenous Races of the Earth (1857), also in conjunction with Nott and others .