Ernest Seymour Thomas

Ernest Seymour Thomas (1876 - June 9, 1935 ) was a British Egyptologist and ethnologist .

Thomas was born the son of a plantation owner in Lindula, Sri Lanka. He grew up with an uncle in Wales, attended the Grammar School in Sutton Coldfield and studied from 1895 at Keble College in Oxford. In 1901 he was a school teacher in Pembrokeshire. From 1906 at the latest, he worked in Cairo for the British government as an assistant to the "Oriental Secretary" (an embassy employee who knows the language and country). He has also published on various topics in Egyptology, including a short guide for the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and a catalog for the ethnographic museum of the Royal Geographical Society of Egypt . When Egypt gained independence in 1922, Thomas returned to England with his family, wife Marjorie and newborn daughter Margaret. There he began to work for the Pitt Rivers Museum ; the first written mention is dated to the year 1924. He was the assistant to the curator Henry Balfour . Thomas is valued for his ethnographic knowledge and drawing skills, which he used to catalog the museum's holdings .

In 1925 he published sustainable research results on African throwing irons . He noted 18 basic forms and arranged them according to their geographical origin.

Thomas died in 1935, still working at the Pitt Rivers Museum. Typhus and peritonitis are given as causes of death .

Fonts (selection)

Short Guide to the Chief Exhibits of the Cairo Museum of Antiquities , Cairo Government Press, 1915 Edition

Web links

Pitt Rivers Museum via Ernest Seymour Thomas [3]

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Pat Keel-Diffey: Syllables of time: war diaries and letters 1939-1946 , Verlag Gabriel, 2005, ISBN 9780954929602 [1] , pp. 35–36.
↑ Timeline Pitt Rivers Museum [2]
↑ Christopher Spring: African Arms and Armor. British Museum Press, London 1993, ISBN 0-7141-2508-3 , p. 69; Patrick McNaug: Review of The Cutting Edge Archivlink ( Memento from August 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).

personal data
SURNAME	Thomas, Ernest Seymour
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British Egyptologist and ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH	19th century or 20th century
DATE OF DEATH	June 9, 1935

[pat-1] Pat Keel-Diffey: Syllables of time: war diaries and letters 1939-1946 , Verlag Gabriel, 2005, ISBN 9780954929602 [1] , pp. 35–36.

[2] Timeline Pitt Rivers Museum [2]

[3] Christopher Spring: African Arms and Armor. British Museum Press, London 1993, ISBN 0-7141-2508-3 , p. 69; Patrick McNaug: Review of The Cutting Edge Archivlink ( Memento from August 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).