Kate Bradbury Griffith [SEP] date of death
Kate Bradbury Griffith
Kate Bradbury Griffith aka Kate Griffith (née Bradbury) (26 August 1854 – 2 March 1902) was a British Egyptologist who assisted in the early development of the Egypt Exploration Society and the Department of Egyptology at University College London (UCL).
Biography.
Bradbury was born in Ashton-under-Lyne, near Manchester, UK, to Elizabeth Ann Tomlins and businessman Charles Timothy Bradbury.
Bradbury was among the early supporters of the Egypt Exploration Fund (EEF), founded in 1882 to
She had also provided the funding for the Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology to be established. The archaeologist William Matthew Flinders Petrie was the first postholder. A former student of Petrie's, Francis Llewellyn Griffith came to UCL to teach ancient Egyptian language.
Kate Bradbury continued to contribute to Egyptology. She provided additional display cases to house the Edwards Collection at UCL, and coordinated unpacking the antiquities and placing them in the cases. She married Griffith in 1896, and collaborated with him in translations of ancient Egyptian texts,