Percy Newberry

Percy Edward Newberry (23 April 1869 – 7 August 1949) was a British Egyptologist.

Biography

Percy Newberry was born in Islington, London on 23 April 1869. His parents were Caroline and Henry James Newberry, a woollen warehouseman. Newberry developed a strong attachment to botany in childhood and was also an excellent artist. He studied at King's College School and King's College London, and studied botany at Kew Gardens. His speciality was the botanical specimens from the tomb, on which he would briefly report in the second volume of Carter's The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen, published in 1927.

Personal life On 12 February 1907 Newberry married Essie Winifred Johnston (1878–1953). They had no children. He died on 7 August 1949 at his home in Godalming in Surrey aged 80.

Works

Newberry wrote extensively on Egyptology, including reports on archaeological findings and numerous contributions to English, French, and German scientific journals. After his death, Newberry's widow presented his correspondence and manuscripts to the Griffith Institute at Oxford University. His publications include:

'Egypt as a Field of Anthropological Research' in British Association for the Advancement of Science, Report of the Ninety-first Meeting, Liverpool 1923 : Sectional Presidential Addresses, H (London: Murray, 1924).