Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology

The Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology is a university professorial chair held at University College London.

History

The chair was founded on the death of Amelia Edwards of the Egyptian Exploration Fund in 1892, who bequeathing her collection of Egyptian antiquities to University College London, together with a sum of £2,500 to found an Edwards Chair of Egyptology. Her protégé, William Matthew Flinders Petrie, was the first to take the chair.

Incumbents

1892–1933: Professor Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie
1934–1946: Stephen Glanville
1951–1970: Walter Bryan Emery
1970–1986: Harry S. Smith
1988–1993: Geoffrey Thorndike Martin
1994–2010: John W. Tait
Current: Stephen Quirke

External links

William Petrie
Amelia Edwards

University College London

Academic activities

Faculties, schools and groupings	Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Slade School of Fine Art) Faculty of Brain Sciences Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Faculty of the Built Environment (The Bartlett) Faculty of Engineering Sciences School of Energy and Resources School of Management Faculty of Laws Faculty of Life Sciences School of Pharmacy Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences Faculty of Medical Sciences Medical School Faculty of Population Health Sciences Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences School of Slavonic and East European Studies Institute of Education Neuroscience
Centres and departments	Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership Centre for Digital Humanities Centre for the History of Medicine Centre for Neuroimaging The Constitution Unit Department of Information Studies Department of Philosophy Department of Science and Technology Studies Department of Space and Climate Physics EPPI-Centre London Centre for Nanotechnology London Knowledge Lab Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art Urban Laboratory
Institutes and laboratories	Ear Institute Eastman Dental Institute Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health Institute of Archaeology Institute for Global Health Institute of Jewish Studies Institute of Neurology Institute of Ophthalmology Institute of Security and Crime Science Pedestrian Accessibility and Movement Environment Laboratory
Other	Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic Pender Chair Papers from the Institute of Archaeology Prize Lecture in Life and Medical Sciences Public Archaeology Quain Professor Ramsay Memorial Professor of Chemical Engineering Slade Professor of Fine Art Transcribe Bentham

University

Campus	Bloomsbury Bloomsbury Theatre Church of Christ the King Euston Road Gordon Square Gower Street Gray's Inn Road Halls of residence Here East Holmbury St Mary Main Building Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Queen Square Somers Town Tavistock Square Tottenham Court Road UCL Observatory UCL East Woburn Square
People	List of notable people Michael Spence (Provost)
Student life	UCL Boat Club The Cheese Grater University College Opera Pi Media Rare FM Royal Free, University College and Middlesex Medical Students RFC Students' Union UCL
Other	Citrus Saturday UCL Business Filming at UCL History Rivalry with King's College London Third-oldest university in England