Mary Doreen Lobel (née Rogers) (25 June 1900 – 1 December 1993) was an historian who edited several volumes of the ''

Victoria County History The Victoria History of the Counties of England, commonly known as the Victoria County History or the VCH, is an English history project which began in 1899 with the aim of creating an encyclopaedic history of each of the historic counties of En ...

'' and a three-volume ''British Atlas of Historic Towns''.

Biography

Lobel was born Mary Doreen Rogers in Bristol on 25 June 1900.. Her father, Frederick William Rogers was a stone merchant and her mother was Blanche Mary, née Lyons. The family were strong

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s, and would entertain suffragist gatherings. She was educated at Clifton High School and helped

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with cataloging translations for his Coptic dictionary. Through Crum, she met Edgar Lobel, a research student 12 years her senior, and the couple were effectively engaged by 1918. In 1919, Lobel attended St. Hugh's College, Oxford, reading history and taught history at

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after she graduated in 1922. The Lobels married on 24 August 1927 and moved to Oxford. Edgar died in 1982 and Lobel lived alone, suffering from Alzheimer's disease. She moved to Wardington House nursing home, Banbury where she died on 1 December 1993. She left her estate to St Hugh’s College, Somerville College, and the Historic Towns Trust. Mary Lobel worked on the ''

'' 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

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Atlas of Historic Towns

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lobel, Mary 1900 births 1993 deaths Alumni of St Hugh's College, Oxford English local historians British medievalists Women medievalists Historians of the British Isles Officers of the Order of the British Empire Writers from Bristol People educated at Clifton High School, Bristol 20th-century English historians British women historians Contributors to the Victoria County History 20th-century British women writers Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Fellows of the Royal Historical Society