| Mary Doreen Lobel | |
|---|---|
| Born | Mary Doreen Rogers[1] 25 June 1900 Bristol[1] |
| Died | 1 December 1993 (aged 93)[1] Banbury |
| Residence | Bristol, Norwich, Oxford, Banbury[1] |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Clifton High School, Bristol[1] and St Hugh's College, Oxford[1] |
| Alma mater | St Hugh's College, Oxford[1] |
| Occupation | Historian, editor |
| Known for | English local history |
| Spouse | Edgar Lobel |
Professor Mary Doreen Lobel, OBE (1900–1993) was an historian who edited several volumes of the Victoria County History and a three-volume British Atlas of Historic Towns.
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Lobel was born Mary Doreen Rogers in Bristol on 25 June 1900.[1] She went to Clifton High School and during a school vacation she helped the coptologist W.E. Crum to prepare his A Coptic Dictionary.[1] Mary Rogers graduated from St Hugh's College, Oxford in the 1920s and spent a short period teaching in Norwich.[1] In 1927 she married Edgar Lobel (1888–1982), a papryrologist and future editor of Greek lyric poetry whom she had met through Crum.[1] They were married for 55 years, until Edgar Lobel's death in 1982.[1]
Mary Lobel worked on the Victoria County History as a contributor to A History of Oxfordshire from the 1930s and as its Oxfordshire county editor from the 1950s until 1972. Thereafter she concentrated on editing the three-volume British Atlas of Historic Towns.[1] While editing the Victoria County History, Lobel was also a librarian at Somerville College, Oxford.[1]
Lobel was made an OBE in 1990.[1]