British broker at Lloyds and historian. Born, Ealing 1888. Died, Bletchley 1968. Educated at St. Paul's School. Many honours including OBE, FRSE, FRSL, FSA, Hon. Fellow, Imperial College of Science, and Hon. Fellow of the Egypt Exploration Society. Learned hieroglyphs in order to further his studies into early medicine. Published widely in many fields including Egyptology.
Published
Two notebooks
- Diary with brief retrospective entries dated 6th January 1920 to 13th January 1939.
- Notebook containing Dawson's list of his publications, 1903 to 1936.
Kept as received.
No problems.
Presented by Mr David Brown in 1990.
Previously with F. F. Leek.
- Related correspondence: Letter in Griffith Institute Archive MSS Correspondence box file.
Griffith Institute Archive:
- Indexes compiled by W. R. Dawson for groups of correspondence which he organized for the following MSS in the Griffith Institute Archive: Griffith, Hincks, Newberry and Le Page Renouf.
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Copyright Griffith Institute, Oxford.
None.
Not published.