Archeologist and R. Kipling documents collector. He was the son of Harris D. and Elizabeth Bowne Colt, he entered St. Paul's in 1915. Although frail health forced him to withdraw from the School in 1918 and to continue his schooling in Arizona, he never lost a deep love for St. Paul's. Subsequently, he studied at Oxford University. The focus of his career was on archaeology: he worked in Egypt under the noted British Egyptologist, W. M. Flinders Petrie, and took part in excavations in Malta. For four years in the thirties, he directed his own archaeological "dig" at Auja el Hafir in the Negev. He inherited a love of collecting from his father, who had assembled a fine series of historical views of New York City, and from this grew his own unfinished work on an encyclopedia of all prints and engravings by American artists up to about the year 1880. In addition, he was a collector of coins and had made a notable collection of Kipling first editions. He is survived by his wife, Armida B. Colt; a son, Harris S. Colt, '53, and three grandsons. (obituary provided by Dyane (#47184694 - Findagrave.com)