Barry John Kemp 1940–2024

and grew up in Dudley, on the outskirts of Birmingham. 1 His father was a salesman who served in Egypt during the war, and it was his postcards and the photographs he brought home that inspired Barry's lifelong interest in ancient Egypt.Barry attended the grammar school King Edward VI Five Ways and developed a clear interest in archaeology, visiting excavations and writing an illustrated school project on ancient Egypt.He narrowly missed compulsory national service, which was phased out in the UK from 1957, and moved to Liverpool to study Egyptology, graduating in 1962.He had a life-long fascination with railways and showed early interest in farming,