Egypt Exploration Society

Professor Alan B Lloyd was Chairman of the Egypt Exploration Society from 1994 until 2007 and a Vice-President until his election as President at the AGM on 10 December 2011. He retired in 2006 from his post as Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Swansea. He participated in EES excavations at North Saqqara in 1972–3 and with the Society’s Saqqara Epigraphic Survey which began work in 1976 on a series of Old Kingdom tombs in the Teti Pyramid Cemetery. Professor Lloyd is an authority on the writings of the historian Herodotus and has an extensive publication record. He has served as Editor of the EES Excavation Memoirs and edited the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology from 1979 to 1985.

Mr Martin Davies is a retired solicitor. A member of the Society since 1962, he has actively pursued a lifetime’s interest in ancient Egypt. He served on the Society’s Committee for over twenty years and dealt with its affairs as honorary legal adviser. He acted similarly on the formation of the Sudan Archaeological Research Society. Martin is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and President of the Egypt Society of Bristol. He visits Egypt frequently and, as an accredited NADFAS lecturer, has given many talks on ancient Egypt, especially the history and rescue of the Nubian monuments, which he visited twice and photographed as far south as Semna in the early 1960s.

Miss Margaret Drower graduated in Egyptology at University College London, where she knew Flinders Petrie. She has excavated in Egypt for the Egypt Exploration Society at Armant and Amarna and visited the Middle East many times. From 1937 she was a Lecturer (later Reader) in Ancient History at University College London and, after her retirement, was made an Honorary Research fellow in the Departments of History and Egyptology. She is the author of a biography of Petrie: Flinders Petrie. A life in Archaeology (1985) and Letters from the Desert: the Correspondence of Hilda and Flinders Petrie (1994).

Professor Harry S Smith first worked in Egypt with Professor Emery on the excavation of tomb 3505 at Saqqara. From 1959-65 he worked at Buhen Fortress and Qasr Ibrim and directed the Egyptian Nubian Survey and excavations at Kor with his wife, Hazel. In 1963 he became Petrie Museum Curator at University College London before being appointed to the Edwards Chair of Egyptology in 1970. From 1964-76 he worked at the Saqqara Sacred Animal Necropolis and from 1977-88 directed surveys and excavations at the Anubieion and Memphis. Since retiring from UCL in 1993 he has collaborated with Sue Davies on publishing the wonderful SAN site, objects and demotic documents.