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R. H. (Robert Hanbury) Brown
1849–1926
An engineer, soldier, and writer on Egypt and irrigation, he turned practical experience into books that connected landscapes, ancient history, and water management. His work has the feel of someone who knew the field firsthand.
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The Fayûm and Lake Mœris
by R. H. (Robert Hanbury) Brown
About the author
Born in 1849, Sir Robert Hanbury Brown was a British Royal Engineer whose writing grew out of a career in surveying, engineering, and imperial service. Sources describing his life note that he was educated at Marlborough College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and that he later served in Egypt, a setting that strongly shaped his books.
His best-known works include The Fayûm and Lake Mœris, The Land of Goshen and the Exodus, and Irrigation: Its Principles and Practice as a Branch of Engineering. Those titles show the range of his interests: part history, part geography, and part applied engineering, with a particular focus on Egypt and the management of water.
For readers today, his books offer more than technical information. They also capture a late 19th- and early 20th-century way of seeing the ancient world through travel, measurement, and public works. He died in 1926.