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Honorary Archivist Geoffrey Martin with Treasury Statutes

The Treasury Statutes is the original copy of the 1506 statutes containing Lady Margaret's inscription 'nos Margareta'. It is lavishly illustrated.

Professor Geoffrey Martin was Honorary Archivist of Christ's College between 1998 and 2022. He was, during this time, Fellow-Commoner of the college. Following his BA in Ancient History from University College London in 1963, he came to Cambridge where he took his MA in 1966, joining the Fellowship at Christ's as Lady Wallis Budge Junior Research Fellow that year. He was awarded his PhD in 1969. During the next part of his career, he returned to University College London to lecture in Egyptology, ultimately becoming Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology. He was Field Director on the Cambridge Expedition to the Valley of the Kings and was most well known for his discoveries of the tomb of Maya, Tutankhamun's treasurer, and the private tomb of Horemheb. He was the author of numerous monographs, mostly concerning results of archaeological fieldwork, epigraphy and sigillography, and papers on Egyptological themes.