Mary Désirée Anderson (1902–1973) was a British specialist in Christian iconography and early Church drama, as well as a leading expert on English medieval woodcarving.
[3] Anderson married Sir George Trenchard Cox (1905–1995) in 1935, a fellow art historian, and museum director (Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and the V&A).
[4] Her parents were British physiologist and academic Hugh Kerr Anderson (1865–1928)[5][6] and Jessie Mina Innes (d. 1946).
[7] Her memoirs, diaries (1918–1933), sketchbook, letters, poems and pamphlets, are held at Gonville and Caius College Archive, Cambridge, having been donated by her husband, Sir George Trenchard Cox.
[8][9] Her reminiscences of life at Cambridge feature in A History of the University of Cambridge: Volume 4 (1870–1990), edited by Christopher Brooke, Christopher N. L. Brooke, Damian Riehl Leader, Victor Morgan, and Peter Searb.