Mary Lobel

Mary Doreen Lobel
Born	Mary Doreen Rogers[1] 25 June 1900(1900-06-25) Bristol[1]
Died	1 December 1993(1993-12-01) (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	Edgar Lobel

Professor Mary Doreen Lobel, OBE (1900–1993) 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 Oxfordshire 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: Volume 1. Victoria County History. Archibald Constable and Co. 
• Editor, with Herbert E. Salter: A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3. Victoria County History. 1954. 
• Editor: A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 5: Bullingdon Hundred. Victoria County History. 1957. 
• Editor: A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 6. Victoria County History. 1959. 
• Editor: A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 7: Thame and Dorchester Hundreds. Victoria County History. 1962. 
• Editor: A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 8: Lewknor and Pyrton Hundreds. Victoria County History. 1964. 
• Editor, with Alan Crossley: A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 9. Victoria County History. 1969. 
• Contributor: Crossley, Alan (ed.); Colvin, Christina; Cooper, Janet; Cooper, N.H.; Harvey, P.D.A.; Hollings, Marjory; Hook, Judith; Jessup, Mary et al. (1972). A History of the County of Oxford, Volume 10. Victoria County History. 

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 0801817536. 
• 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. 

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o} McGuinness, Brian (16 December 1993). "Obituary: Mary Lobel". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-mary-lobel-1467689.html. 

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Name
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	25 June 1900
Place of birth	Bristol
Date of death	1 December 1993
Place of death	Banbury