Mary Lobel
| Mary Doreen Lobel | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Mary Doreen Rogers[1] 25 June 1900 Bristol[1] |
| Died |
1 December 1993 (aged 93)[1] Banbury |
| Residence | Bristol, Norwich, Oxford, Banbury[1] |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Clifton High School, Bristol[1] and St Hugh's College, Oxford[1] |
| Alma mater | St Hugh's College, Oxford[1] |
| Occupation | Historian, editor |
| Known for | English local history |
| Spouse(s) | Edgar Lobel |
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.
Life
Lobel was born Mary Doreen Rogers in Bristol on 25 June 1900.[1] She went to Clifton High School and during a school vacation she helped the coptologist W.E. Crum to prepare his A Coptic Dictionary.[1] Mary Rogers graduated from St Hugh's College, Oxford in the 1920s and spent a short period teaching in Norwich.[1] In 1927 she married Edgar Lobel (1888–1982), a papryrologist and future editor of Greek lyric poetry whom she had met through Crum.[1] They were married for 55 years, until Edgar Lobel's death in 1982.[1]
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.[1] While editing the Victoria County History, Lobel was also a librarian at Somerville College, Oxford.[1]
Lobel was made an OBE in 1990.[1]
Works
Victoria County History
- Contributor: Salzman, Louis F.; Page, W.H.; Salter, Herbert E.; Lobel, Mary D; Crossley, Alan (1939). A History of the County of Oxford. Victoria County History. 1. Archibald Constable and Co.
- Editor, with Herbert E. Salter: A History of the County of Oxford. Victoria County History. 3. 1954.
- Editor: A History of the County of Oxford. Victoria County History. 5: Bullingdon Hundred. 1957.
- Editor: A History of the County of Oxford. Victoria County History. 6: Ploughley Hundred. 1959.
- Editor: A History of the County of Oxford. Victoria County History. 7: Thame and Dorchester Hundreds. 1962.
- Editor: A History of the County of Oxford. Victoria County History. 8: Lewknor and Pyrton Hundreds. 1964.
- Editor, with Alan Crossley: A History of the County of Oxford. Victoria County History. 9: Bloxham Hundred. 1969.
- Contributor: Crossley, Alan (ed.); Colvin, Christina; Cooper, Janet; Cooper, N.H.; Harvey, P.D.A.; Hollings, Marjory; Hook, Judith; Jessup, Mary; Lobel, Mary D.; Mason, J.F.A.; Trinder, B.S.; Turner, Hilary (1972). A History of the County of Oxford. Victoria County History. 10: Banbury Hundred.
Atlas of Historic Towns
- Editor: The Atlas of Historic Towns: Maps and Plans of Towns and Cities in British Isles, with Historical Commentaries, from Earliest Times to 1800. Towns: Bristol, Cambridge, Coventry, Norwich. II. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1975. ISBN 0-8018-1753-6.
- Editor: British Atlas of Historic Towns: The City of London from Prehistoric Times to Circa 1520. III. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-822979-8.