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GEORGE ROBINS GLIDDON (1809-1857)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 122 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE See also:ROBINS See also:GLIDDON (1809-1857)  , See also:British Egyptologist, was See also:born in See also:Devonshire in 1809 . His See also:father, a See also:merchant, was See also:United States See also:consul at See also:Alexandria, and there See also:Gliddon was taken at an See also:early See also:age . He became United States See also:vice-consul, and took a See also:great See also:interest in See also:Egyptian antiquities . Subsequently he lectured in the United States and succeeded in rousing considerable See also:attention to the subject of Egyptology generally . He died at See also:Panama in 1857 . His See also:chief See also:work was See also:Ancient See also:Egypt (1850, ed . 1853) . He wrote also Memoir on the See also:Cotton of Egypt (1841); See also:Appeal to the Antiquaries of See also:Europe on the Destruction of the Monuments of Egypt (1841) ; Discourses on Egyptian See also:Archaeology (1841); Types of Mankind (1854), in See also:conjunction with J . C . See also:Nott and others; Indigenous Races of the See also:Earth (1857), also in conjunction with Nott and others .

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