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| Picture No | 10639130 |
| Date | 1923 |
| Description | Lord Carnarvon |
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Photographic portrait of George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866-1923), c.1922. Lord Carnarvon was the wealthy, English amateur egyptologist who financed Howard Carter's excavations in the Valley of the Kings in 1922-3. He was one of the first people to enter Tutankhamen's tomb. Pictured in The Tatler shortly before the tomb's historic opening and Carnarvon's subsequent death that year.
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| Source | Photograph by Walter Thomas in The Tatler, 14 February 1923 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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