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See also: born in See also: Guernsey, on the 23rd of See also: August 1822
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He was educated at See also: Elizabeth
See also: College there, and proceeded to See also: Oxford, which, upon his becoming a See also: Roman Catholic, under the influence of Dr Newman, he quitted without taking a degree
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Like many other See also: Anglican converts, he proved a thorn in the See also: side of the Ultramontane party in the Roman See also: Church, though he did not, like some of them, return to the communion of the Church of
See also: England
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He opposed the promulgation of the dogma of Papal Infallibility, and his See also: treatise (1868) upon the condemnation of See also: Pope See also: Honorius for See also: heresy by the council of Constantinople in A.D
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68o was placed upon the See also: index of prohibited books
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He had been from 1855 to 1864 professor of See also: ancient See also: history and See also: Oriental See also: languages in the Roman Catholic university which Newman vainly strove to establish in See also: Dublin, and during See also: part of this See also: period edited the See also: Atlantis and the Home and See also: Foreign Review, which latter had to be discontinued on account of the hostility of the Roman Catholic hierarchy
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In 1864 he was appointed a See also: government inspector of See also: schools, which position he
held until 1886, when his growing celebrity as an Egyptologist procured him the See also: appointment of Keeper of Oriental Antiquities in the See also: British Museum, in succession to Dr See also: Samuel Birch
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He was also elected in 1887 president of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, to whose Proceedings he was a See also: constant contributor
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The most important of his contributions to Egyptology are his Hibbert Lectures on " The See also: Religion of the Egyptians," delivered in 1879; and the See also: translation of The See also: Book of the Dead, with an ample commentary, published in the Transactions of the society over which he presided
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He retired from the Museum under the superannuation See also: rule in 1891, and died in See also: London on the 14th of See also: October 1897
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He had been knighted the See also: year before his See also: death
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He married in 1857 Ludovica von Brentano, member of a well-known See also: German See also: literary See also: family
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