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Vyse, Richard William Howard, 1784-1853

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Personal name headingVyse, Richard William Howard, 1784-1853
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Variant(s)Howard-Vyse, Richard William Howard, 1784-1853
Howard Vyse, Colonel, 1784-1853
Colonel Howard Vyse, 1784-1853
Birth date1784-07-25
Death date1853-06-08
Place of birthStoke Poges (England)
Place of deathStoke Poges (England)
Profession or occupationSoldiers Legislators Egyptologists
Found inOperations carried on at the pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: with an account of a voyage into Upper Egypt, and an appendix, 1840-42: t.p. (Colonel Howard Vyse)
OCLC, 3-23-2006 (hdg.: Howard-Vyse, Richard William Howard, 1784-1853)
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, April 20, 2016: Richard William Howard Vyse page (Major General Richard William Howard Vyse KCMG, born 25 July 1784 at Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire; died 8 June 1853 in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire; British soldier, anthropologist, and Egyptologist; Member of Parliament for Beverley, 1807-1812, and Honiton, 1812-1818)
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_William_Howard_Vyse>
Who was who in Egyptology, 1972: page 295 (encyclopedia heading: Vyse, Richard William Howard (1784-1853); English army officer, excavator, author and benefactor; born 25 July 1784; died 8 June 1853; visited Egypt in 1835 and carried out excavations at the Pyramids of Giza with Caviglia; having secured the assistance of John Shea Perring in Jan. 1837, he returned to england leaving Perring to complete the work at his expense; published Operations carreid on at the pyramids of Gizeh in 1837 in 3 vols, 1840, 1842; presented antiquities and 4 papyri to the British Museum)
Dictionary of national biography, 1908-1909: Volume 20, page 398 (encyclopedia heading: Vyse, Richard William Howard)
The House of Commons, 1790-1820, 1986: Volume 2, page 109 (Richard William Howard Howard Vyse, member of Parliament for Honiton, 1812)
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