Carnarvon
Americannoun
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In November 1922 he succeeded—despite his clashes with Egyptian authorities, his colleagues and even his greatest patron, the Earl of Carnarvon.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
Nearly 20 new species have now been described with the help of specimens collected on the 2022 voyage, including the Carnarvon Flapjack Octopus announced earlier in 2025.
From Science Daily • Oct. 8, 2025
"I never saw her on set with a little script, she knew it before she got here," Lady Carnarvon, who lives in Highclere Castle where Downton Abbey was filmed, told BBC Breakfast.
From BBC • Sep. 28, 2024
Carter waited to open the door until his benefactor George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, fifth earl of Carnarvon, who had funded his work in the valley for all those years, could travel to the site.
From Scientific American • Nov. 4, 2022
Carnarvon, Lord, proposed Act to amend the Law relating to cruelty to animals, 288.
From Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters by Darwin, Charles
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