Sir Flinders Petrie, D.Sc, Ph.D., F.R.S., F.B.A

The death of Sir Flinders Petrie at Jerusalem on 28th July has removed Britain's most famous Egyptologist. The son of a civil engineer and the grandson of a sailor explorer of Australia, he was born in 1853 and, like quite a sprinkling of scholars, was educated privately. Starting his life's work with a survey of Stonehenge and other British remains, in 1880 he turned to the Great Pyramid and wrote a classical work on " The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh ". And his new method of excavation with its conservancy of the smallest fragments from the past laid the foundation of our knowledge of Egyptian chronology, art, and culture, especially of the archaic or pre-dynastic age

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