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Herbert Walter Fairman (1907 – 1982) was a British Egyptologist. During his career he served as a field director for two excavations in Eygpt that were funded by the Egypt Exploration Society.
Biography
Fairman was born in the town of Clare, Suffolk, in 1907. He was educated in Kent and received a degree in Egyptology from the University of Liverpool's department of archaeology. His father worked as a missionary in Eygpt and the Sudan, and as such Fairman spent a good deal of time in said countries. He worked on multiple archeological projects in Eygpt; at Armant from 1929–31, El-Amarnah in 1930 to 1936, at Sesebi from 1936–38, and at Amarah West from 1938–39 and 1947–48. His work at Amarah West was interrupted by the Second World War, during which Fairman worked at the British embassy in Cairo.
Fairman published a number of books on Egyptology during his life. One such work was a translation of an ancient Eygptian play, which Fairman named The Triumph of Horus.