Nationality British Spouse Edgar Lobel Name Mary Lobel | Known for English local history Occupation Historian, editor Books Bristol, Cambridge | |
Full Name Mary Doreen Rogers Born 25 June 1900 ( 1900-06-25 ) Bristol Alma mater St Hugh's College, Oxford Died December 1, 1993, Banbury, United Kingdom Education Clifton High School, Bristol, St Hugh's College, Oxford Residence Bristol, United Kingdom, Norwich, United Kingdom, Oxford, United Kingdom, Banbury, United Kingdom | ||
Professor Mary Doreen Lobel, OBE (25 June 1900 – 1 December 1993) was an historian who edited several volumes of the Victoria County History and a three-volume British Atlas of Historic Towns.
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Lobel was born Mary Doreen Rogers in Bristol on 25 June 1900. She went to Clifton High School and during a school vacation she helped the coptologist W.E. Crum to prepare his A Coptic Dictionary. Mary Rogers graduated from St Hugh's College, Oxford in the 1920s and spent a short period teaching in Norwich. In 1927 she married Edgar Lobel (1888–1982), a papryrologist and future editor of Greek lyric poetry whom she had met through Crum. They were married for 55 years, until Edgar Lobel's death in 1982.
Mary Lobel worked on the Victoria County History as a contributor to A History of the County of Oxford from the 1930s and as its Oxfordshire county editor from the 1950s until 1972. Thereafter she concentrated on editing the three-volume British Atlas of Historic Towns. While editing the Victoria County History, Lobel was also a librarian at Somerville College, Oxford.
Lobel was made an OBE in 1990.