R. H. (Robert Hanbury) Brown

Born in 1849, Robert Hanbury Brown was a British Royal Engineer who built a career around irrigation and public works, especially in Egypt. Contemporary records and library catalogs identify him as the author of works including Irrigation; Its Principles and Practice as a Branch of Engineering, The Fayûm and Lake Mœris, and The Land of Goshen and the Exodus.

His writing stands out because it joins technical knowledge with close observation of the landscapes he worked in. In books on irrigation and the Nile region, he explained large engineering questions in a way that also reflected an interest in Egyptian history and geography.

Brown died in 1926. A suitable verified portrait image was not clearly available from the sources I checked, so no profile image is included here.