About George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon
George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon,, styled Lord Porchester until 1890, was an English peer and aristocrat best known as the financial backer of the search for and excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings. Exceedingly wealthy due to his marriage settlement, Carnarvon was at first best known as an owner of racehorses, and in 1902 he established Highclere Stud to breed thoroughbred racehorses. However that night Carter, his assistant Arthur Callender, Carnarvon and Lady Evelyn apparently made an unauthorized visit, becoming the first people in modern times to enter the tomb. Whilst this helped finance the work, it created resentment both from other newspapers and from the Egyptian authorities, whose own press was also excluded.
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