KING, Leonard William. London 8.12.1869 — 20.8.1919. British Archaeologist and Assyriologist. Professor in London. Son of Robert King (d. 1886) and Mary Scarborough Educated at Rugby, studied King’s College, Cambridge, beginning with theology, but soon Egyptology and Assyriology (B.A. 1891, M.A. 1895, LL.D. 1914). From 1892 in British Museum, working…
HINCKS, Edward. Cork 19.8.1792 — Killyleagh, county Down 3.12.1866. Rev. Anglo-Irish Priest and Oriental Scholar. The eldest son of the Presbyterian minister and naturalist Thomas Dix Hincks (1767–1857), whose father came in 1767 from Chester to Dublin, and Anne Boult. Educated at home and at Middleton College in Cork, from…
HALÉVY, Joseph. Adrianople (now Edirne) 15.12.1827 — Paris 21.1.1917. French (originally Turkish Jew) Epigraphist, Semitist and Traveller. Professor in Paris, naturalized Frenchman 1865. Taught Hebrew in Jewish schools in Adrianople and Bucharest, studied Oriental languages and archaeology. In 1865 came to Paris. In disguise of a Rabbi from Jerusalem he…