Sybille Haynes

She worked with Etruscan artefacts at the British Museum for many years as well as publishing numerous books, for fellow scholars and also for the general public.

However, she had always been interested in the antiquities collected by her maternal great-grandfather, the sculptor and art historian Melchior zur Straßen [de], and had a long-standing wish to study classical archaeology, and in particular, Etruscology.

She had also come to know the previous Keeper, Bernard Ashmole, who offered her a voluntary position in the department where her work included answering questions about Etruscan subjects and handling correspondence in German and Italian.

She also published regularly in international journals and was made a foreign member of the Istituto di Studi Etruschi ed Italici in 1965.

[4] Neil MacGregor, while director of the British Museum, called Haynes an "Etruscologist of international repute" in the introduction to a 2011 festschrift.