Sir Robert Hyde Greg, KCMG (24 December 1876 – 3 December 1953), was a British diplomat. He served as the British Minister to Siam from 1921 to 1926 and to

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from 1926 to 1929. Greg was also a noted collector of Egyptian antiquities. In his will, he bequeathed his collection of 626 objects to the

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. He also left a substantial part of his estate to the museum, but the funds were confiscated by the Egyptian government in the aftermath of the

Suez Crisis The Suez Crisis, also known as the Second Arab–Israeli War, the Tripartite Aggression in the Arab world and the Sinai War in Israel, was a British–French–Israeli invasion of Egypt in 1956. Israel invaded on 29 October, having done so w ...

. In 1964, compensation amounting to £33,515 17s 6d was paid to the Fitzwilliam Museum. This formed the Greg Fund, which exists to the present day. In 1914, Greg married the American heiress Julia Fairchild Schreiner.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Greg, Robert 1876 births 1953 deaths Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Romania Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Thailand British art collectors British expatriates in Egypt British Egyptologists