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The Obelisk and the Englishman 1KBBN and how the rivalry betweenScholarly, mischievous, and driven by curiosity about the unknown, William John Bankes (1786 1855) was a complex and talented member of England's landed gentry. A friend of Lord Byron, he achieved recognition on several fronts as a daring explorer of ancient lands, notably Egypt and Petra; as a brilliant art collector, illustrator, and remodeler of Kingston Lacy, his family estate in Dorset; and, unfortunately, as the focus of a homophobic sex