Frederick W. Green

Frederick William Green (March 21, 1869 – 1949) was an English Egyptologist, who worked at a number of sites throughout Egypt. He was honorary keeper of the antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge from 1908 to 1949. Green was also a watercolour painter.

Biography Green was born in London on 21 March 1869. His interest in Egyptology began as a child, after he was gifted some items collected by his aunt, who had lived in Alexandria. One of those items was the granite head of Senwosret III, which Green presented to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1930. continuing to study Archaeology and Egyptology under Kurt Sethe for a further three years in Göttingen and Strasbourg and then excavated sites in and around Egypt with Flinders Petrie and Somers Clarke.

He died in Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire in 1949.