Mary Lobel

Mary Doreen Lobel (née Rogers) OBE FSA (25 June 1900 – 1 December 1993) was a historian who edited several volumes of the Victoria County History and a three-volume British Atlas of Historic Towns.

She was educated at Clifton High School and helped Walter Ewing Crum with cataloging translations for his Coptic dictionary.

[2] Through Crum, she met Edgar Lobel, a research student 12 years her senior, and the couple were effectively engaged by 1918.

She moved to Wardington House nursing home, Banbury where she died on 1 December 1993.

[1] While editing the Victoria County History, Lobel was also a librarian at Somerville College, Oxford.