CARNARVON, George Edward Stanhope

b. 26 June 1866; d. 5 April 1923

The Earl of Carnarvon was a British egyptologist who was the patron and associate of the archaeologist Howard Carter in the discovery, in 1922, of King Tutankhamen's tomb, which he photographed. A keen amateur photographer, Carnarvon also worked with the platinum process. The Royal Photographic Society owns some 22 of these.