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Alma mater
  
University of London

Fields
  
Maritime archaeology

Died
  
April 9, 2015, England

Name
  
Margaret Rule


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Education
  
University of Cambridge

Margaret Helen Rule, (27 September 1928 – 9 April 2015) was a British archaeologist. She led the project that excavated and raised the Tudor warship Mary Rose in 1982.

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Early life

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Rule, née Martin, was born in Buckinghamshire on 27 September 1928. She studied chemistry at the University of London.

Career

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She was the curator of the Fishbourne Roman Palace, when she began her work in maritime archaeology when she was consulted on the initial search for the wreck of Mary Rose.

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In March 1982 Margaret Rule visited Adelaide, South Australia, as the keynote speaker to the Second Southern Hemisphere Conference on Maritime Archaeology. During the Conference she visited the historic Murray River port of Morgan and dived with members of the Society for Underwater Historical Research (SUHR) on a project to record and recover items from the riverbed alongside the town's massive wharf.

Later life

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Rule had been living with Parkinson's disease and arthritis in her later years. She died on 9 April 2015, aged 86.

Obituaries

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  • British Sub Aqua Club - 'Tributes paid to Dr Margaret Rule, lead archaeologist of the Mary Rose' Monday 13 April 2015
  • Isabel Berwick, Financial Times - 'Margaret Rule, archaeologist, 1928-2015' Friday 17 April 2015
  • Peter Marsden, The Guardian - 'Archaeologist responsible for raising the wreck of the Mary Rose, Henry VIII’s flagship, from the seabed' Thursday 16 April 2015
  • Matthew Bannister, Last Word, BBC Radio 4 - 'Margaret Rule was the archaeologist who supervised the raising of Henry VIII's flagship, the Mary Rose from the seabed under the waters of the Solent' Friday 24 April 2015
  • Rosemary E Lunn, X-Ray Magazine - 'Margaret Rule 1928 - 2015' Friday 29 April 2015

    • Honours

    She was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. In 1995, the National Maritime Museum awarded her its Caird Medal. In 2001 the University of Portsmouth named a new 342 bed student accommodation block Margaret Rule Hall after her. In 2008, she was awarded the Colin Mcleod Award for “Furthering international co-operation in diving” by the British Sub Aqua Club.

    References

    Margaret Rule Wikipedia
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