| Ralph Lavers | |
| Nationality: | British |
| Occupation: | Painter |
| Birth Date: | 7 September 1907 |
| Birth Place: | Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia |
| Death Place: | Hastings, England |
Ralph Lavers (7 September 1907 - 8 March 1969) was a British painter, machinist, architect and sculpture artist. He was born in 1907 in Broken Hill, NSW, Australia to Henry and Lillian Lavers.[1] Little is known of his early life but by the early 1930s he was participating in archaeological excavations in Egypt. In 1932-33 season he was at Amarna where John Pendlebury was director. Others in the excavation party that year included Pendlebury's wife Hilda, New Zealand poet Charles Brasch, RAF engineer Stephen Sherman.[2] Brasch described Lavers as coming to the dig 'primarily as John's drinking companion - as friends, a rather improbable pair':
Ralph was short, stocky, plumpish, with a soft boyish face, and usually looked rather scruffy, partly from the way he wore his clothes, often from a hangover... He was untidy; his socks hung down; he would push his hat to the back of his head, and often scratched his head in reflective puzzlement; one liked him instinctively; he invited friendliness and good-natured tolerance.
His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics.[3]