Maria Millington Lathbury

Maria Millington Lathbury (1856 - 1944) was a classical scholar, archaeologist and numismatist.

Maria Millington Lathbury
Born1856
Died1944
Alma materSomerville College, Oxford
OccupationClassical archaeologist

Biography

Lathbury was born in 1856,[1] the daughter of Charles Crawford Lathbury of Wimbledon.[2] In 1886, aged 30, she began to study Literae humaniores at the University of Oxford;[3][4][5] her college was Somerville.[6] Her interest in the classical world had been stimulated by Jane Harrison's "Extension Lectures in the Suburbs".[5] At Oxford she was taught by Percy Gardner.[5] Later she also travelled to Greece as a companion for a 'younger woman' in 1892. There some of the research for her subsequent book took place.[6] She also joined one of Dörpfeld's tours of the Greek islands.[5] In 1892 she also wrote a note in The Academy on the lighting within Greek temples.[7]

Also in 1892, Lathbury married the archaeologist Sir John Evans.[8] They had met at a lecture that Lathbury attended on "The Dates of some Greek Temples as derived from their orientation".[9] They met again the following week at a diner party and five months later were married.[9][10] For a wedding gift, Evans gave Lathbury a Roman cameo, in a gold mount by Alessandro Castellani.[8] They toured archaeological sites in Britain and France for their honeymoon, travelling with their mutual friend Nina Layard.[11]

On 22 June 1893, their daughter Joan Evans was born at Nash Mills, Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire.[12] In 1906 the family moved to Britwell, Berkhamsted.[12] In 1908 her husband died; in his obituary Lathbury was described as a "classical scholar and keen antiquary".[13]

She died in 1944.[1]

Career

After completing the examinations in the late 1880s, Lathbury was appointed as an Extension Lecturer for the university.[14] She was also a 'lady lecturer' at the British Museum, focusing on Greek dress.[14] In fact, along with Ethel Abrahams, Lathbury was one of the first female scholars of Greek Dress.[15] Both scholars wanted their work to be accessible so that members of the public could recreate Greek styles of dress for themselves.[15]

In 1891 she was interviewed in the Pall Mall Gazette with Jane Harrison, where they discussed the Greek world, archaeology and the character of female audiences for archaeological talks.[16]

In 1892 she designed the costume for a production of Aristophanes' The Frogs.[17] In the following year her book, Chapters on Greek Dress, published and dedicated to OUDS ‘in remembrance of their performance of the Frogs of Aristophanes'.[18]

In 1900 The Englishwoman's Yearbook & Directory listed her as a woman "active in archaeology".[19]

Publications
  • Chapters on Greek Dress (London, 1893)[18]
  • 'Hair Dressing on Roman Ladies as Illustrated on Coins' Numismatic Chronicle (1906)[20]
  • 'A Silver Badge of Thetford' Numismatic Chronicle (1907)[21]
  • 'Memorial Medal of Anne Eldred' Numismatic Chronicle (1908)[22]
  • 'A Silver Plaque of Charles I as Prince' Numimatic Chronicle (1908)[23]
  • 'Memorial Medal of Josiah Nicolson' Numismatic Chronicle (1909)[24]
  • 'The Trentham Statue and the Sacerdotessa' The Burlington Magazine (1910)[25]
  • 'Le Pontifical de Metz' Revue Archéologique (1912)[26]
  • Lustre Pottery (1920)[27]
  • 'Moorish Potters in France' The Burlington Magazine (1936)[28]

Legacy

Lathbury buried a time capsule on 20 July 1898, with a halfpenny and a handwritten note inside, to commemorate the construction of St Albans Museum, which her husband helped to found.[29] A new capsule was re-buried on the same spot in 2018.[30][31]

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References
  1. "Maria Lathbury". British Museum. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
  2. Garlick, Kenneth (2004). "Evans, Dame Joan (1893–1977), scholar and author". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/47612. |access-date= requires |url= (help) (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. Wrigley, Amanda. "ROBERT BRIDGES'MASQUE DEMETER AND OXFORD'S PERSEPHONES" (PDF). New Voices in Classical Reception Studies. 5.
  4. admin (2018-02-21). "Evans, Joan, Dame". Evans, Joan. Prelude & Fugue, an Autobiography. London: Museum Press, 1964; Garlick, Kenneth. "Evans, Joan, Dame." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004; Coldstream, Nicola. "Joan Evans (1893-1977): Art Historian and Antiquary." in, Chance, Jane, ed. Women Medievalists in the Academy. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005, pp. 399-422; "Dame Joan Evans, Historian of French and English Medieval Art." Times (London) July 15, 1977, p.18. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
  5. Gill, David W. J. (2002). "'The passion of hazard': women at the British School at Athens before the First World War". The Annual of the British School at Athens. 97: 494. doi:10.1017/S0068245400017482. ISSN 0068-2454.
  6. "Chapter 5: Women at the British School at Athens". Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. 54 (Supplement_111): 115–139. 2011-04-01. doi:10.1111/j.2041-5370.2011.tb00052.x. ISSN 0076-0730.
  7. Millington-Lathbury, M. (1892). CORRESPONDENCE. The Academy, 1869-1902, 0269-333X, (1028), 70. Retrieved from https://ezproxy-prd.bodleian.ox.ac.uk:2186/docview/8190657?accountid=13042
  8. "Cameo set in a 19th century mount (Getty Museum)". The J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
  9. Sir John Evans 1823-1908 : antiquity, commerce and natural science in the age of Darwin. MacGregor, Arthur, 1941-, Ashmolean Museum. [Oxford]: Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. 2008. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-85444-237-6. OCLC 298587682.CS1 maint: others (link)
  10. Evans, Joan (1964). Prelude & Fugue. p. 24.
  11. Hill, Kate. (July 2016). Women and museums 1850-1914. Modernity and the gendering of knowledge. Sharpe, Pamela. Manchester. ISBN 978-1-5261-0031-3. OCLC 972478385.
  12. "Dame Joan Evans". hubbardplus.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
  13. LORD AVEBURY. 1908. 'Sir John Evans, K.C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S. Born November 17th, 1823; Died May 31st, 1908.'. Man Vol. 8, pp. 97-98. (available on-line: http://www.therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/obituaries/john-evans).
  14. Thornton, Amara (25 June 2018). Archaeologists in print : publishing for the people. London. p. 151. ISBN 978-1-78735-257-5. OCLC 1045427073.
  15. Lee, Mireille M. (12 January 2015). Body, dress, and identity in ancient Greece. New York. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-107-05536-0. OCLC 892212917.
  16. Thornton, Amara (25 June 2018). Archaeologists in print : publishing for the people. London. p. 55. ISBN 978-1-78735-257-5. OCLC 1045427073.
  17. "Maria Millington Lathbury AKA Lady Evans | APGRD". www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
  18. Evans, Lady Maria Millington Lathbury (1893). Chapters on Greek Dress. Macmillan and Company.
  19. Thornton, Amara (25 June 2018). Archaeologists in print : publishing for the people. London. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-78735-257-5. OCLC 1045427073.
  20. Evans, Maria Millington; Evans, Lady (1906). "Hair-Dressing of Roman Ladies as Illustrated on Coins". The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society. 6: 37–65. ISSN 0267-7504. JSTOR 42659999.
  21. Evans, Maria Millington; Evans, Lady (1907). "A Silver Badge of Thetford". The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society. 7: 89–106. ISSN 0267-7504. JSTOR 42663491.
  22. Evans, Maria Millington (1908). "Memorial Medal of Anne Eldred". The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society. 8: 178–194. ISSN 0267-7504. JSTOR 42662183.
  23. Evans, Maria Millington (1908). "A Silver Plaque of Charles I as Prince". The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society. 8: 266–272. ISSN 0267-7504. JSTOR 42662189.
  24. Evans, Maria Millington; Evans, Lady (1909). "Memorial Medal of Josias Nicolson". The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society. 9: 241–249. ISSN 0267-7504. JSTOR 42662213.
  25. Evans, Maria Millington (1910). "The Trentham Statue and the Sacerdotessa". The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs. 17 (90): 371–368. ISSN 0951-0788. JSTOR 858435.
  26. Evans, Maria Millington (1912). "Le Pontifical de Metz". Revue Archéologique. 19: 413–414. ISSN 0035-0737. JSTOR 41022591.
  27. "LUSTRE POTTERY.* » 13 Nov 1920 » The Spectator Archive". The Spectator Archive. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
  28. Evans, Maria Millington (1936). "Moorish Potters in France". The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs. 69 (402): 136. ISSN 0951-0788. JSTOR 866691.
  29. "Time Capsule". St Albans Museums. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
  30. Berry, Franki. "Modern time capsule buried under former Museum of St Albans in same spot as 1898 discovery". Herts Advertiser. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
  31. "Time capsules found at former museum site". BBC News. 2017-11-08. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
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