Life To 1922
He was educated at Stonyhurst College. He travelled to Persia in 1891, then for a decade 1894 to 1905 in North Africa and East Africa. He was a correspondent for the Morning Post during the Second Boer War. Expeditions included
- 1891-2 Persepolis, with Lorenzo Giuntini, making casts of the reliefs
- 1894-5 Libya and Cyrenaica, creating a photographic record
- 1898 Abyssinia Expedition with Lord Lovat and Reginald Koettlitz
- 1904-5 Around Addis Ababa
- 1922 Weld Blundell Expedition, found the Weld-Blundell Prism, now in the Ashmolean Museum
In 1921-1922 he presented the Weld Blundell Collection to the University of Oxford.
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