The beginnings, Egypt and Assyria, 1930.
Magician and leech: a study in the beginnings of medicine with special reference to ancient Egypt, 1929.Bibliography of Works relating to Mummification in Egypt, 1928.(with Grafton Elliot Smith) Egyptian mummies, 1924.He was married to Alice Helen Wood in 1912. His proposers were Robert Ludwig Mond, James Ritchie, Lewis William Gunther Malcolm, and William Fraser Hume. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1928. He was honorary librarian to Lloyd's of London 1927 to 1936. He published biographical accounts of Thomas Pettigrew (1931), Charles Wycliffe Goodwin (1934) and Grafton Elliot Smith (1938), as well as Who was who in Egyptology (1951), a 'biographical index' to Egyptologists.ĭawson also catalogued the manuscripts of the Medical Society of London (1932), the Linnean Society (1936), and the Huxley Papers in the Imperial College of Science (1946) he calendared the correspondence of Joseph Banks for the British Museum (1958). Much of his knowledge of the land he had acquired directly from the best guides – the great Egyptologists of the last generation, Budge, Griffith, Gardiner, Petrie, Newberry, Gunn.".
Though Dawson never himself travelled to Egypt, "he talked of it as if he had known it well. Dawson's study of ancient medicine resulted in Magician and Leech, and many later articles. A lifelong interest in Egyptian mummification began with collaboration with the anatomist Grafton Elliot Smith. Įncouraged by Wallis Budge at the British Museum, Dawson began serious amateur study of Egyptian hieroglyphs in 1914. Ill-health prompted retirement in 1936 to live in Simpson, a village near Bletchley, Buckinghamshire.
He entered the insurance business, establishing his own underwriting agency in 1922 a partnership in 1929 allowed him leisure to pursue his scholarly interests. He was educated at St Paul's School, attending the school between 19,but was forced to abandon his education on the death of his father in 1903. He was born in Ealing in west London on 13 October 1888. Warren Royal Dawson OBE FRSE FRSM FZS FSA FLS FRSL (13 October 1888, Ealing –, Bletchley) was an English librarian, insurance agent, Egyptologist and antiquarian.
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