Oliver Robert Gurney was an English Assyriologist from the Gurney family and a leading scholar of the Hittites. Wikipedia
Born: January 28, 1911, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Died: January 11, 2001 (age 89 years), Oxford, United Kingdom
Edited works: The Sultantepe Tablets, Ur Excavations: Publications of the Joint Expedition of the British Museum and of the University Museum of Pennsylvania to Mesopotamia. Middle Babylonian legal documents and other texts ; by Oliver R. Gurney, The Middle Babylonian Legal and Economic Texts from Ur, and more
Partner: Diane Hope Esencourt (1957–)
Parents: Robert Gurney and Sarah Gamzu Garstang