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Lot Essay
Penbuy appears to have been a craftsman working in the Valley of the Kings and part of the community of artisans living in Deir el-Medina, ‘the Place of Truth’. His tomb is recorded in Porter and Moss, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings, I. The Theban Necropolis, Part 1, Private Tombs, Oxford, 1994, p. 19-21. He is also known from a number of stelae, including at the British Museum, acc. no. 1466 and at the Glasgow Museums, acc. no. EGNN.683.
Villiers Stuart was a British soldier, politician, clergyman and author. He served as vicar of Bulkington, Warwickshire from 1852-55, and of Napton from 1855-71. He resigned his holy orders to pursue a political career and became M.P. for the county of Waterford, Ireland in 1873. In 1882 he was sent to Egypt by the British government to report on the condition of the people of the country, publishing Egypt after the War in 1883.
Villiers Stuart was a British soldier, politician, clergyman and author. He served as vicar of Bulkington, Warwickshire from 1852-55, and of Napton from 1855-71. He resigned his holy orders to pursue a political career and became M.P. for the county of Waterford, Ireland in 1873. In 1882 he was sent to Egypt by the British government to report on the condition of the people of the country, publishing Egypt after the War in 1883.