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
Lady Carnarvon blames "a terrible myriad of misinformation" in the press for suggesting otherwise.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2022
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
Liddon repeated at Munich the story of Carnarvon.
From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
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