Henry Salt ( 1780 - 1827 )

Birth: Lichfield, Staffordshire, England (14 June 1780) Death: The village of Dessuke, near Alexandria, Egypt (29 or 30 October 1827) Burial: Alexandria, Egypt Career: Learned drawing and painting; studied under Joseph Farrinton and John Hoppner in London (1797-1802); toured India, Ceylon and Abyssinia with George Viscount Valentia (FRS 1816) (1802-1806); sent by the Government to Abyssinia (1809-1811); British Consul General for Egypt (1815-1827); discovered the Abu Simbel inscriptions (1817); collected Egyptian antiquities and in 1818 sold some to the British Museum, including the splendid bust of Rameses II, others to the French government; died of a disease of the spleen Membership: Fellow Election Date: 26/11/1812.