T. Eric (Thomas Eric) Peet

Born in Liverpool on 12 August 1882, T. Eric Peet studied at Merchant Taylors’ School, Crosby, and at The Queen’s College, Oxford. He became known as an English Egyptologist and archaeologist, and from 1909 onward he took part in excavations in Egypt for the Egypt Exploration Fund.

Peet taught Egyptology at the University of Manchester and later became Reader in Egyptology at Oxford. During the First World War he also served in military intelligence, an unusual chapter in a career otherwise centered on ancient history and archaeology.

He wrote on a wide range of Egyptian subjects, including historical texts and the famous Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, and he built a reputation for careful, readable scholarship. He died in Oxford on 22 February 1934, leaving behind work that helped shape British Egyptology in the early twentieth century.