Freda Hansard

Freda was the younger daughter of the Reverend Septimus Hansard, vicar of Bethnal Green, and his wife Edith.

She accompanied him to excavations at Abydos and Saqqara in the 1902/3 and 1903/4 seasons, producing drawings of wall inscriptions in tombs along with Margaret Murray, Lina Eckenstein, Hilda Petrie, and Jessie Mothersole.

[1][8] The pair worked together on drawings accompanying Petrie's excavations at Giza and Rifeh the next year.

[9] In the 1920s and 30s she and her daughter divided their time between Egypt (where Cecil was Inspector of Antiquities at Saqqara from 1923 until his death in 1931)[10][8] and England, where Freda worked on restoring Bradley Manor, which she and her husband had bought in 1909.

Their daughter Diana Woolner FSA (née Firth), who published on the archaeology of England and Malta, gave Bradley Manor to the National Trust in 1938.