Maria Millington Lathbury

Maria Millington Lathbury, Lady Evans (1856–1944) was a classical scholar, archaeologist and numismatist.

[9][10] For a wedding gift, Evans gave Lathbury a Roman cameo, in a gold mount by Alessandro Castellani.

[8] They toured archaeological sites in Britain and France for their honeymoon, travelling with their mutual friend Nina Layard.

[15] Both scholars wanted their work to be accessible so that members of the public could recreate Greek styles of dress for themselves.

[17] In the following year her book, Chapters on Greek Dress, published and dedicated to OUDS 'in remembrance of their performance of the Frogs of Aristophanes'.

[20] Lathbury buried a time capsule on 20 July 1898, with a halfpenny and a handwritten note inside, to commemorate the construction of St Albans Museum, which her husband helped to found.