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1857–1919 England

Mary Rothes Margaret Cecil, 2nd Baroness Amherst of Hackney, OBE (née Mary Rothes Margaret Tyssen-Amherst; 25 April 1857 – 21 December 1919, sometimes published as Lady William Cecil) was a British hereditary peer, charity worker, archaeologist in Egypt, ornithologist, and author.

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The Egyptians possessed much interesting literature, of which poetry formed an important part. The hymns to Ra, Amen, and Hapi, and that of Akhenaten to the Sun's Disk, are all beautiful specimens; and so, likewise, is the epic poem to King Rameses, known as the "Poem of Pentaur."

A Sketch of Egyptian History (1904)

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