[6] After Oxford, she worked as a scientific researcher under George Porter at the Royal Institution in London.

She co-edited Clean Electricity from Photovoltaics (2001); Molecular to Global Photosynthesis (2004); The 1702 Chair of Chemistry at Cambridge: Transformation and Change (2005) and Nanostructured and Photoelectrochemical Systems for Solar Photon Conversion (2008).

[7] In 1994 Lady Archer was a non-executive director of Anglia Television at a time when it was the target of a takeover bid.

[7] She was founder director of Cambridge University Health Partners, 2009–2012,[15] and was deputy chair of ACT (Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust) from 1997 to 2015.

[21] She married Jeffrey Archer in July 1966, having met him at Oxford University, where he had been studying for a diploma in education.

[24] In the summer of 1974, the Archers were struck by a financial crisis when Jeffrey lost over £400,000 in a bad investment.

Faced with the threat of bankruptcy, the Archers were forced to move out of their large house in The Boltons.

[25] Mary took up a teaching post at Cambridge University which, together with her husband's eventual success as a novelist, saved them from financial ruin.

[10] In 1987 she gave evidence at the High Court in a libel case brought by her husband against the Daily Star newspaper, which had correctly reported that he had hired a sex worker, with whom he had sexual intercourse.

[26] In 2001, when Jeffrey Archer was prosecuted for having committed perjury and for perverting the course of justice in the 1987 trial, she appeared at the Old Bailey as a defence witness.

[28] The trial judge, Mr Justice Potts, questioned the veracity of Mary Archer's evidence, suggesting that she too had perjured herself.