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| | GEORGE HERBERT, 5TH EARL OF CARNARVON FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (June_26, 1866 – April_5, 1923), usually referred to simply as Lord Carnarvon, was an English aristocrat best known as the financier of the excavation of the Egyptian New Kingdom Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt's Valley_of_the_Kings. |
 | | On June_26, 1895 Carnarvon married one Almina Victoria Maria Alexandra Wombwell, daughter of Marie Boyer, the wife of Frederick Charles Wombwell, but her real father was possibly the unmarried Rothschild family member Alfred_Rothschild who made Lady Carnarvon his heiress. |
 | | The 5th Earl was an enthusiastic amateur Egyptologist, undertaking in 1907 to sponsor the excavation of the royal tombs at Thebes by Howard_Carter. |
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