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Hugh Evelyn-White
British classical scholar (–)
Hugh Gerard Evelyn-White ( – 9 September ) was a classicist, Egyptologist, Coptologist and archaeologist.
Evelyn white hesiod biography
Life
Hugh Gerard Evelyn-White was born in Ipswich in He was the son of the antiquarian, Charles Harold Evelyn-White, and his wife, Charlotte Reid.[1] Educated at The King's School, Ely, in he graduated with a degree in classics from Wadham College, Oxford.
At Oxford he had studied under the classical archaeologist Percy Gardner. In , he took a job at the British Museum as an assistant to Aurel Stein, working with central Asian artefacts.[2]:&#;&#;
Later in , Evelyn-White took a post as a specialist in Greco-Roman antiquities on the annual expedition of the New York Metropolitan Museum to Egypt.[2]:&#;&#; He worked each year on the expedition until the First World War, when he joined the British Army.
Initially, he signed up as an enlisted soldier in the 16th (Service) Battalion,