Lord Carnavon's first visit to the Valley of the Kings Size:Standard: 6 x 4in This 'telescopic philanthropy' was epitomised

This 'telescopic philanthropy' was epitomised by Mrs Jellyby in Bleak House

actual size (fig

He had been made Archbishop of Westminster at the beginning of 1874

pictured at home in Denham

Joanna Lumley

Lord Carnavon's first visit to the Valley of the Kings Size:Standard: 6 x 4in This 'telescopic philanthropy' was epitomisedLord Carnavon's first visit to the Valley of the Kings, Egypt, 1923. Lord Carnavon (1866 1923) and a party in a motor car. Carnarvon was archaeologist Howard Carter's financial backer in his excavations in the Valley of the Kings. The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 was one of the most astounding discoveries in archaeology. Tutankhamun was a previously unknown pharaoh whose name had been eradicated from historical records by one of his