William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney, DL, JP (25 April 1835 – 16 January 1909) was a British Conservative Member of Parliament and collector of books and works of art.

In 1906, he was forced to sell a large portion of his collection after discovering that his estate and certain trust funds had been entirely dissipated at the hands of an untrustworthy solicitor, Charles Cheston, under whose management they had been placed.

The Museum records reveal that in 1882 he exhibited six "life size Egyptian figures" at Swaffham assembly rooms.

[3][4] Amherst's collection included the lower section of a 20th Dynasty tomb robbery papyri otherwise described as the Papyrus Leopold II, which is in the possession of the Morgan Library & Museum, New York.

[7] Lord Amherst died in London, in January 1909, aged 73, and was succeeded in the barony according to the special remainder by his eldest daughter Mary.