I. E. S. Edwards

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I. E. S. Edwards CBE FBA
Born	Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards 21 July 1909
Died	24 September 1996(1996-09-24) (aged 87)
Nationality	English
Citizenship	United Kingdom
Occupation	Curator
Academic background
Education	Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood
Alma mater	Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Academic work
Discipline	Egyptology
Sub-discipline	Egyptian hieroglyphs Tutankhamun Egyptian pyramids
Institutions	British Museum

Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards,

Biography

Born in London, he was the son of Edward Edwards (1870–1944) of the British Museum, and his wife Ellen Jane Higgs.^[2] He attended Merchant Taylors' School, where he studied Hebrew,^[3] and then Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, gaining a first class in Oriental Languages. He was awarded the William Wright studentship in Arabic and received his doctorate in 1933.

In 1934 Edwards joined the British Museum as Assistant Keeper in the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. He published Hieroglyphic Texts for Egyptian Stelae in 1939. During World War II he was sent to Egypt on military duty. In 1946 he wrote The Pyramids of Egypt, which was published by Penguin Books in 1947. In 1955 he was appointed the Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum and organized the Tutankhamun exhibition in 1972. He remained there until his retirement in 1974.

On leaving the British Museum he worked with

in 1968 for his services to the British Museum.

Family

Edwards married Elizabeth Lisle in 1938. They had a daughter and a son.^[4]

See also

• List of Egyptologists

References

Cultural offices
Preceded by C. J. Gadd	Keeper of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities, British Museum 1955–1974	Succeeded by T. G. H. James