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Ernest Aldrich Simpson (6 May 1897 – 30 November 1958) was an American-born British shipbroker, who was the second husband of Wallis Simpson, later the wife of the former King Edward VIII. Simpson served as an officer in the Coldstream Guards before becoming a shipbroker in the family firm of SSY.
Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (27 July 1857 – 23 November 1934) was an English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum and published numerous works on the ancient Near East.
Feb 21, 2020 · In Harry and Meghan, some royal watchers see echoes of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, the couple at the heart of the abdication crisis eight decades ago. But does the comparison hold up?
the gods of the egyptians or studies in egyptian mythology by e. a. wallis budge, m.a., litt.d., d.litt., d.lit. keeper of the egyptian and assyrian antiquities in the british museum with 131 illustrations volume ii methuen & co. 36 essex street w.c. london 1904
Sir Ernest A T Wallis Budge primary name: Budge, Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Details individual; curator; British; Male. Life dates 1857-1934. Biography Born 27 ...
Five years later, after Edward's accession as King of the United Kingdom, Wallis divorced Ernest to marry Edward. The King's desire to marry a woman who had two living ex-husbands threatened to cause a constitutional crisis in the United Kingdom and the Dominions , ultimately leading to his abdication in December 1936 to marry "the woman I love ...
Sir Wallis Budge (born July 27, 1857, Cornwall, Eng.—died Nov. 23, 1934, London) was the curator (1894–1924) of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities at the British Museum, London, for which he collected vast numbers of cuneiform tablets, Egyptian papyri, and Greek, Coptic, Arabic, Syriac, and Ethiopic manuscripts.
