Margaret Stefana Hackforth-Jones MBE (née Drower; 8 December 1911 – 12 November 2012), known as Peggy Dower, was an English historian of Ancient Near Eastern History and Egyptology.
[2] She was awarded the MBE and elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
She was a student of Flinders Petrie, Margaret Murray and Stephen Glanville, and become one of the first Egyptology graduates from University College London (UCL).
[2] Drower's excavations included Armant with O. H. Myers, Robert Mond and Ali Suefi, and at Amarna with John Pendlebury.
During the Second World War she worked with Freya Stark at the Baghdad Ministry of Information, using her skill as an Arabic speaker.