George Robins Gliddon
1809–57
English-born archaeologist and ethnologist. US vice-consul at Alexandria for about twenty years. Lectured in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia on Egyptian antiquities. Agent for Honduras interoceanic railway at the time of his death. Author of works on archaeology and ethnology.
Source
Modern English biography.
Bibliography
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
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