George Hart obituary Sam Moorhead
My friend George Hart, who has died aged 75 of cancer, was one of Britain’s leading educators about Egypt. If you walked through the Egyptian sculpture gallery at the British Museum and saw a large crowd of people being addressed by someone you could barely see, it had to be George conducting a gallery talk. There was rarely an empty seat when he lectured.
George was born in Dunfermline, the son of Horace Hart, known as Harry, an underwriter’s clerk, and his wife, Lillian (nee Smith), a secretary. The family moved south when George was a child and he attended East Ham grammar school. He studied Classics and Egyptology at University College London, where he was greatly inspired by Professor Harry Smith, the Egyptologist, who became a mentor.