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To God's favour the greatest and best, eternal architect of the universe may it bring you happiness and good fortune at the beginning of the eighth year of the reign of King George IV of Britain the most highest prince Augustus Frederick Duke of Sussex patron of all the fine arts the oldest order of architecture the highest among the English the foundation stone of the London University ...
Margaret Alice Murray FSA Scot FRAI (13 July 1863 – 13 November 1963) was an Anglo-Indian Egyptologist, archaeologist, anthropologist, historian, and folklorist.The first woman to be appointed as a lecturer in archaeology in the United Kingdom, she worked at University College London (UCL) from 1898 to 1935.
University College's main building in the late 1820s, with its classical portico and dome. University College London (UCL) was founded on 11 February 1826, [1] under the name London University, as a secular alternative to the strictly religious universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
UCL offers dual degrees and joint degrees with other universities and institutions, including the University of Cologne, [195] Columbia University, [196] the University of Hong Kong, [197] Imperial College London (ending 2023) [198] and New York University. [199] UCL is the sponsor of the UCL Academy, a secondary school in the London Borough of ...
Upper part of a statuette of an Egyptian woman and her husband. 18th Dynasty. From the Amelia Edwards Collection now housed in the Petrie Museum. The museum was established as a teaching resource for the Department of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology at University College at the same time as the department was established in 1892. [3]
The Lost Language of the Cranes (1991) featured a fictional member of the staff at UCL and a few scenes were filmed in UCL. Eyes Wide Shut (1999) uses the UCL GP practice as the clinic for Tom Cruise's character. Gladiator (2000) uses the Front Quad as one of its models for ancient Rome.
Worton was born in Luanshya, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), of a Yorkshire father and Scottish mother.Worton's family returned to Scotland when he was still of primary-school age, and he was educated at Sanquhar Academy and then Dumfries Academy, and the University of Edinburgh for his Master of Arts [citation needed] and Doctor of Philosophy [4] degrees.
The chair was founded on the death of Amelia Edwards of the Egyptian Exploration Fund in 1892, who bequeathing her collection of Egyptian antiquities to University College London, together with a sum of £2,500 to found an Edwards Chair of Egyptology.