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Gunn, Battiscombe George, son of George Gunn, of South Kensington, by Julia Alice, second daughter of John Moore Philp, of Clapham Road, Surrey; b. June 30, 1883; adm. Sept. 30, 1897 (H); left July 1898; went to Bedales on leaving; tried and abandoned banking and engineering as a career; taught himself hieroglyphics during this period and published The Wisdom of Ptah-Hotep (1906); private secretary to Sir Arther Pinero, the playwright, 1908-11; sub-editor of the Continental Daily Mail 1912; assisted Flinders Petrie in excavations at Harageh 1913 and after service in the army in 1914, and being invalided out, joined Sir Allan Gardiner; his Studies in Egyptian Syntax (1924) revolutionised the study of Middle Egyptian Grammar; asst. keeper Egyptian Museum, Cairo, 1928-31; curator, Egyptian Section, Univ. Museum, Philadelphia, 1931-4; Professor of Egyptology, Oxford Univ. and Fellow of Queen's Coll. 1934; M . A. Oxon. 1934; F. B.A. 1943; m. 1st-; 2nd July 7, 1948, Constance Anne Rogers; d. Feb. 27, 1950.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from Play 1883 to Election 1960, Volume 3, compiled by J.B. Whitmore, G.R.Y. Radcliffe and D.C. Simpson, Barnet, 1963