Mary Lobel

Mary Doreen Lobel
Born	Mary Doreen Rogers (1900-06-25)25 June 1900 Bristol
Died	1 December 1993(1993-12-01) (aged 93) Banbury
Nationality	British
Education	Clifton High School, Bristol and St Hugh's College, Oxford
Alma mater	St Hugh's College, Oxford
Occupation(s)	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. 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.

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. Vol. 1. Archibald Constable and Co.
• Editor, with Herbert E. Salter: A History of the County of Oxford. Victoria County History. Vol. 3. 1954.
• Editor: A History of the County of Oxford. Victoria County History. Vol. 5: Bullingdon Hundred. 1957.
• Editor: A History of the County of Oxford. Victoria County History. Vol. 6: Ploughley Hundred. 1959.
• Editor: A History of the County of Oxford. Victoria County History. Vol. 7: Thame and Dorchester Hundreds. 1962.
• Editor: A History of the County of Oxford. Victoria County History. Vol. 8: Lewknor and Pyrton Hundreds. 1964.
• Editor, with Alan Crossley: A History of the County of Oxford. Victoria County History. Vol. 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. Vol. 10: Banbury Hundred. {{cite book}}: |first1= has generic name (help)

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. Vol. 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. Vol. III. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-822979-8.