Selwyn Tillett is a retired Anglican priest living near Norwich. His interest in Robert Hay began while reading for a degree in Egyptology at Cambridge in the early 1970s, a decade before ordination. Egypt Itself is his only publication in this fi eld, though following other interests he has also published extensively for the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society on the pre-production and early performance history of the operas of Gilbert and Sullivan and their contemporaries. In 1990 he was one of the two co-discoverers of the ballet music from Gilbert and Sullivan’s first opera, Thespis, all the music from which was thought to have vanished. He is a frequent actor and director, and secretary to the management committee, for the Sewell Barn Theatre in Norwich.

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• List of Figures Family Trees  Maps  Note on Transcriptions and Spelling  Abbreviations Used in the Notes  Preface  Introduction  1: Childhood, Naval Service and Linplum 1799-1822  2: Grand Tour and the Beginning in Egypt 1822-24  3: The First Expedition 1824-28  4: Rescue and Marriage - an Investigation  5: The Second Expedition 1829–34  6: A Celebrated Traveller’s Projects 1835-40  7: A Country Gentleman and his Friends 1840-44  8: Failure, Florence and Family 1845-63  9: Dispersal: 1863 to the Present  Bibliography  Index

Selwyn Tillett is a retired Anglican priest living near Norwich. His interest in Robert Hay began while reading for a degree in Egyptology at Cambridge in the early 1970s, a decade before ordination. Egypt Itself is his only publication in this fi eld, though following other interests he has also published extensively for the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society on the pre-production and early performance history of the operas of Gilbert and Sullivan and their contemporaries. In 1990 he was one of the two co-discoverers of the ballet music from Gilbert and Sullivan’s first opera, Thespis, all the music from which was thought to have vanished. He is a frequent actor and director, and secretary to the management committee, for the Sewell Barn Theatre in Norwich.

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• List of Figures Family Trees  Maps  Note on Transcriptions and Spelling  Abbreviations Used in the Notes  Preface  Introduction  1: Childhood, Naval Service and Linplum 1799-1822  2: Grand Tour and the Beginning in Egypt 1822-24  3: The First Expedition 1824-28  4: Rescue and Marriage - an Investigation  5: The Second Expedition 1829–34  6: A Celebrated Traveller’s Projects 1835-40  7: A Country Gentleman and his Friends 1840-44  8: Failure, Florence and Family 1845-63  9: Dispersal: 1863 to the Present  Bibliography  Index

Selwyn Tillett is a retired Anglican priest living near Norwich. His interest in Robert Hay began while reading for a degree in Egyptology at Cambridge in the early 1970s, a decade before ordination. Egypt Itself is his only publication in this fi eld, though following other interests he has also published extensively for the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society on the pre-production and early performance history of the operas of Gilbert and Sullivan and their contemporaries. In 1990 he was one of the two co-discoverers of the ballet music from Gilbert and Sullivan’s first opera, Thespis, all the music from which was thought to have vanished. He is a frequent actor and director, and secretary to the management committee, for the Sewell Barn Theatre in Norwich.

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• List of Figures Family Trees  Maps  Note on Transcriptions and Spelling  Abbreviations Used in the Notes  Preface  Introduction  1: Childhood, Naval Service and Linplum 1799-1822  2: Grand Tour and the Beginning in Egypt 1822-24  3: The First Expedition 1824-28  4: Rescue and Marriage - an Investigation  5: The Second Expedition 1829–34  6: A Celebrated Traveller’s Projects 1835-40  7: A Country Gentleman and his Friends 1840-44  8: Failure, Florence and Family 1845-63  9: Dispersal: 1863 to the Present  Bibliography  Index