George Robins Gliddon

(1809-1857)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Gliddon, George R. (George Robins), 1809-1857 LBT ID: GeGlidd1857 VIAF ID: 64243797 LOC ID: n88606087	B/BAP: 1809 DIED: 1857
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The son of an American merchant, he was born in Devonshire, England and as a child was friends with the Novello and Hunt families; when his father was United States Consul to Alexandria he began a life-long interest in Egyptology.
REFERENCES TO George Robins Gliddon: Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Chapter II. Found 1: ¶ 6