Anthony John Arkell

Career Religious / Academic / Antiquarian / Museum Professional / Colonial Servant

Biography Arkell served in the first World War in the Flying Corps/ Royal Air Force, joined the Sudan Political Service in 1920 and served in a series of political postings until the end of the Second World War. In 1938 he studied for the Diploma at the Pitt Rivers Museum. From 1948-1953 he was an archaeological advisor to the Sudanese government, and a Lecturer in Egyptology at University College, London. Curator of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Antiquities at University College London from 1948-1963. From 1963 to 1971 Arkell was the Vicar of Cuddington in Buckinghamshire having obtained a D.Litt in 1955 from the University of Oxford. [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 05/01/2007]

Biography References 'Who Was Who in Egyptology' by Warren R. Dawson and Eric P. Uphill, Third Revised Edition by M. L. Bierbrier, Egypt Exploration Society, London 1995 / ISCA Diploma Register / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._J._Arkell / Who was Who 2007

Clubs & Societies Society of Antiquaries / Royal Anthropological Institute [& earlier manifestations] / Oxford University Anthropological Society

County Buckinghamshire

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1971

Dates active 1898-1980

Donated around 1971

Owned 1971

English collections Miscellaneous objects including beads, medals and coins

Oxford Uni College Queens College

Oxford Uni Education Yes

Oxford based No

English collection size 30

Connections Mrs Bramble / Cuddington Parish Church