Maria Millington Lathbury

Maria Millington Lathbury, Lady Evans
Lathbury, 1897
Born1856
Died1944(1944-00-00) (aged 87–88)
Alma materSomerville College, Oxford
OccupationClassical archaeologist
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(m. 1892; died 1908)​
ChildrenDame Joan Evans
AwardsPrestwich Medal (1909)

Maria Millington Lathbury, Lady Evans (1856–1944) was a classical scholar, archaeologist and numismatist. An alumna of Somerville College, she campaigned for Oxford University to award degrees to women. Along with Ethel Abrahams, she was one of the first female scholars of classical Greek dress. She married the archaeologist John Evans, and their daughter was art historian Joan Evans.

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