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|birth_name= Mary Doreen Rogers
|birth_name= Mary Doreen Rogers<ref name=Independent>{{cite news |last=McGuinness |first=Brian |title=Obituary: Mary Lobel |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |date=16 December 1993 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-mary-lobel-1467689.html}}</ref>
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|birth_date= {{birth date|1900|6|25|df=yes}}
|birth_place= [[Bristol]]<ref name=Independent/>
|birth_place= [[Bristol]]
|residence= [[Bristol]], [[Norwich]], [[Oxford]], [[Banbury]]<ref name=Independent/>
|residence= [[Bristol]], [[Norwich]], [[Oxford]], [[Banbury]]<ref name=Independent/>
|spouse= [[Edgar Lobel]]
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|death_place= [[Banbury]]
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|nationality= British
|known_for= [[English local history]]
|known_for= [[English local history]]
|education= [[Clifton High School (Bristol)|Clifton High School, Bristol]]<ref name=Independent/> and [[St Hugh's College, Oxford]]<ref name=Independent/>
|alma_mater= [[St Hugh's College, Oxford]]
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'''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''.
'''Mary Doreen Lobel''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|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==
==Life==
Lobel was born Mary Doreen Rogers in Bristol on 25 June 1900.<ref name=Independent/> She went to [[Clifton High School (Bristol)|Clifton High School]] and during a school vacation she helped the [[Coptology|coptologist]] [[Walter Ewing Crum|W.E. Crum]] to prepare his ''A Coptic Dictionary''.<ref name=Independent/> Mary Rogers graduated from [[St Hugh's College, Oxford]] in the 1920s and spent a short period teaching in [[Norwich]].<ref name=Independent/> In 1927 she married [[Edgar Lobel]] (1888–1982), a [[Papyrology|papryrologist]] and future editor of [[Lyric poetry#The Classical period|Greek lyric poetry]] whom she had met through Crum.<ref name=Independent/> They were married for 55 years, until Edgar Lobel's death in 1982.<ref name=Independent/>
Lobel was born Mary Doreen Rogers in Bristol on 25 June 1900.<ref name=Independent>{{cite news |last=McGuinness |first=Brian |title=Obituary: Mary Lobel |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |date=16 December 1993 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-mary-lobel-1467689.html}}</ref> She went to [[Clifton High School (Bristol)|Clifton High School]] and during a school vacation she helped the [[Coptology|coptologist]] [[Walter Ewing Crum|W.&nbsp;E. Crum]] to prepare his ''A Coptic Dictionary''.<ref name=Independent/> Mary Rogers graduated from [[St Hugh's College, Oxford]], in the 1920s and spent a short period teaching in [[Norwich]].<ref name=Independent/> In 1927 she married [[Edgar Lobel]] (1888–1982), a [[Papyrology|papryrologist]] and future editor of [[Lyric poetry#The Classical period|Greek lyric poetry]] whom she had met through Crum.<ref name=Independent/> They were married for 55 years, until Edgar Lobel's death in 1982.<ref name=Independent/>


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''.<ref name=Independent/> While editing the ''Victoria County History'', Lobel was also a librarian at [[Somerville College, Oxford]].<ref name=Independent/>
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''.<ref name=Independent/> While editing the ''Victoria County History'', Lobel was also a librarian at [[Somerville College, Oxford]].<ref name=Independent/>

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Mary Doreen Lobel
OBE
Born
Mary Doreen Rogers

(1900-06-25)25 June 1900
Bristol
Died1 December 1993(1993-12-01) (aged 93)[1]
Banbury
NationalityBritish
Alma materSt Hugh's College, Oxford
Occupation(s)Historian, editor
Known forEnglish local history
SpouseEdgar Lobel

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. 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.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j McGuinness, Brian (16 December 1993). "Obituary: Mary Lobel". The Independent.
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