Egypt Exploration Society

Sir Julian Horn-Smith has been President of the EES since December 2006. He joined Vodafone in 1984 and held a number of senior posts, including that of Chief Operating Officer. In 1996 he was appointed to the board of Vodafone Group PLC and in 2005 became Deputy Chief Executive. He was non-executive Chairman and a Director of Sage Group plc from 2006-07 and currently serves on the boards of Lloyds TSB, Digicel and Altimo. In 2004 he received a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for his services to international telecommunications. Chairman of The Bath School of Management Advisory Board; Co-Chairman of The Turkish British Business Council; Advisory Board of Altimo; Senior Advisor to UBS Investment Bank and on the Advisory Board of CVC.

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, gives 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).

Mr T G H (Harry) James ^† is a former Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum from 1974 to 1988 and served as Chairman of the Egypt Exploration Society from 1983-89. Previously he had been General Editor of EES publications and had edited the Society’s annual Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. Mr James is the author of many books on ancient Egypt, including a biography of the discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamun: Howard Carter. The Path to Tutankhamun (2001). He has participated in EES epigraphic projects in Egypt, notably at Gebel es-Silsila and Saqqara.

^† Mr James died on 16 December 2009.

Professor Alan B Lloyd was Chairman of the Egypt Exploration Society from 1994 until 2007. 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.
 

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.

Professor Maisa Farid, the Cultural Counsellor at the Egyptian Embassy in London, was elected as a Vice-President, ex officio, at the Society's Annual General Meeting on 12 December 2009.