Mary Grace Simpson FSA (12 November 1920 – 8 February 2007) was a British archaeologist and museum curator specialising in the study of Roman ceramics, especially Samian ware.
[1] Between 1950 and 1972 Simpson was the Honorary Curator of the Clayton Collection of antiquities at Chesters Roman fort.
The subject of this thesis was published in 1964 as Britons and the Roman Army: A Study of Wales and the Southern Pennines in the 1st-3rd Centuries.
[8] She taught at Oxford for the Department of Extra-Mural Studies and was a visiting fellow at Haverford College, Pennsylvania.
[10] Simpson was one of the early members of the Rei cretariae Romanae fautores, a specialist study group for Roman ceramicists, following its founding 1957 and organised the 14th Congress of the society in Oxford and London in September 1984.