Cecil Mallaby  Firth  ( 05.07.1878  -  25.07.1931 )

Cecil M. Firth was a British Egyptologist. He worked in Egypt for the Antiquities Service for 30 years, except during the World War I. He collaborated with George A. Reisner in the Archaeological Survey of Nubia in 1907–1910. He organised the Aswan Museum on Elephantine Island in 1912, in which several discoveries from Nubia feature. He became Inspector of Antiquities at Saqqara in 1913, where he notably excavated at the site of the pyramid of King Djoser. His untimely death, due to pneumonia caught as he returned to England on leave in 1931, prevented him from undertaking the planned clearing of the 1st Dynasty tombs at Saqqarah.