Arthur R. Callender

British architect and engineer. He was born in Mount Bridge, Skirbeck, near Boston, Lincolnshire, 13 December 1875, son of Robert C., engineer, and Matilda Pepper. He married Eliza Clara Reynolds in Alexandria, 14 August 1901. He was manager of the Egyptian branch railways from which he retired in about 1920, when he built a house at Armant.

He was a personal friend of Howard Carter (1874–1939) whom he assisted in the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun; he was responsible for the successful dismantling of the shrines and many other objects. He also helped Walter B. Emery (1903–1971) and Sir Robert L. Mond (1867–1938) during their excavations in the work of reconstructing the tomb of Ramose.

In 1924 he supervised the construction of the old Chicago House on the West Bank at Luxor and was involved in the negotiations with local landowners in subsequent years. He conducted excavations for the landowner Victor Adda (1885–1965) on his property in the Delta. He sold objects to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Oriental Institute (now the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures), University of Chicago. He died in Alexandria, 12 December 1936.