► Royal Navy ► Personnel
► Other non-sea officer biographies
| John Gardner Wilkinson | |||
| Son of Rev John Wilkinson. | |||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Event | |
| 5 October 1797 | Born (Little Missenden, Buckinghamshire). | ||
| 1816 | 1818 | Exeter College, Oxford (left without a degree). | |
| 18?? | Joined army. | ||
| 1821 | 1833 | In Egypt. | |
| 1837 | Published 'Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians. (first series). | ||
| 1839 | Knighted. | ||
| 1841 | 1842 | In Egypt. | |
| 1841 | Published 'Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians. (second series). | ||
| 1843 | 1844 | In Egypt. | |
| 1848 | In Egypt. | ||
| 1852 | D.C.L. (Doctor of Civic Law), Oxford. | ||
| 1855 | 1856 | In Egypt. | |
| 1856 | Married Caloline Catherine Lucas (1822-1881), actress and botanist. | ||
| 29 October 1875 | Died (Llandovery, Wales). | ||
| Wilkinson was 'the father of British Egyptology' While in Egypt he learned Coptic and Arabic, studies hieroglyphics, and surveyed the Valley of the Kings and Thebes. He developed a chronology of the New Kindom dynasties as Thebes. | |||
| Literature: (Thompson). | |||
Top↑
 |