British archaeologist and photographer. He was born in Stamford, 13 September 1879, son of William B., carpenter, and Anne Hufton. He began his photographic career in Florence with the art historian Robert H. H. Cust (1861–1940).

He was then engaged as a excavator at Thebes by Theodore M. Davis (1838–1915) between 1910–1914. From 1914 onwards he worked for the rest of his career as a photographer for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. His task was to record many of the royal and private tombs at Thebes. Between 1922 and 1933 he was lent by the Metropolitan Museum to Lord Carnarvon (1866–1923) and Howard Carter (1874–1939) to make a photographic record during the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun.

He died in Asyut, 27 June 1940.

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