H. W. Fairman
Herbert Walker Fairman (1907–1982) was a British Egyptologist. During his career he served as a field director for two excavations in Eygpt that were funded by the Egypt Exploration Society.[1]
Biography
Fairman was born in the town of Clare, Suffolk, in 1907. He was educated in Kent and received a degree in Egyptology from the University of Liverpool's department of archaeology. His father worked as a missionary in Eygpt and the Sudan, and as such Fairman spent a good deal of time in said countries.[1] He worked on multiple archeological projects in Eygpt; at Armant from 1929–31, El-Amarnah in 1930 to 1936, at Sesebi from 1936–38, and at Amarah West from 1938–39 and 1947–48.[1] His work at Amarah West was interrupted by the Second World War, during which Fairman worked in the British embassy in Cairo.[1]
Fairman published a number of books on Egyptology during his life.[2] One such work was a translation of an ancient Eygptian play, which Fairman named The Triumph of Horace.[3]
