WEIGALL, ARTHUR EDWARD PEARSE BROME British Egyptologist and author, was born on Nov. 20, 188o, and educated at Hillside school, Malvern, and at Wellington college. After a short time at New College, Oxford (1900), he joined the Egypt Exploration fund as assistant to Prof. Flinders Petrie, and later (1905) was appointed inspector general of antiquities under the Egyptian Government. He re tired in 1914, but continued to write on archaeological subjects. He received several foreign decorations for his archaeological work.
His many publications include A Report on the Antiquities of Lower Nubia (1907); Travels in the Upper Egyptian Deserts (1909) ; The Life of Akhnaton, Pharaoh of Egypt (1910, revised 1922) ; The Life of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt (1914, revised 1924) ; Egypt from 1798 to 1914 (1915); Ancient Egyptian Works of Art (1924) ; A History of the Pharaohs (vol. i. vol. ii. 1926) ; Wanderings in Roman Britain (1926) ; The Grand Tour of Norman England (1927).