Battiscombe Gunn

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Battiscombe George Gunn (30 June 1883–27 February 1950) was an English Egyptologist.

Gunn was born in London and educated at Bedales School, Westminster School and Allhallows School, Honiton. After trying banking, engineering and journalism he became an assistant to the noted Egyptologist Flinders Petrie. He worked with a number of eminent Egyptologists before becoming assistant conservator of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo in 1928. He moved to the University Museum at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1931 as curator of the Egyptian section. In 1934 he was appointed Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford, a chair he held until his death.

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• Dictionary of National Biography