GRIFFITH, FRANCIS LLEWELLYN

(1862–1934)

British Egyptologist. He was born in Brighton, England, on 27 May 1862. He studied at Oxford and excavated in Egypt with Flinders Petrie and Henri Edouard Naville. He became reader in 1901 and then in 1924 professor of Egyptology at Oxford. He was one of the leading scholars of Egyptian texts and deciphered the script of ancient Meroe. He died in Oxford on 14 March 1934. According to his will, he founded the Griffith Institute in Oxford, a major research center for Egyptology.