Sir Robert Hyde Greg, KCMG (24 December 1876 – 3 December 1953) was a British diplomat. He was British Minister to Siam from 1921 to 1926 and British Minister to Romania from 1926 to 1929. Gregg was also a noted collector of Egyptian antiquities. In his will he bequeathed his collection of 626 objects to the

Fitzwilliam Museum The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge. It is located on Trumpington Street opposite Fitzwilliam Street in central Cambridge. It was founded in 1816 under the will of Richard FitzWilliam, 7th Vis ...

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

Suez Crisis The Suez Crisis, or the Second Arab–Israeli war, also called the Tripartite Aggression ( ar, العدوان الثلاثي, Al-ʿUdwān aṯ-Ṯulāṯiyy) in the Arab world and the Sinai War in Israel,Also known as the Suez War or 1956 Wa ...

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

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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