Jocelyn Toynbee

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Jocelyn Mary Catherine Toynbee (3 March 1897, Paddington, London – 31 December 1985, Oxford^[1]) was an English archaeologist and art historian. "In the mid-twentieth century she was the leading British scholar in Roman artistic studies and one of the recognized authorities in this field in the world."^[1]

Biography

Jocelyn Toynbee was the daughter of Harry Valpy Toynbee, secretary of the Charity Organization Society, and his wife Sarah Edith Marshall (1859–1939); her brother Arnold J. Toynbee was a notable universal historian.

Toynbee was educated at Winchester High School for Girls and (like her mother) at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she achieved a First in the Classical Tripos.

She was tutor in classics at St Hugh's College, Oxford (1921–24), lecturer in classics at Reading University, and from 1927 fellow and director of studies in classics at Newnham. In 1931 she was appointed lecturer in classics at Cambridge before becoming the fourth Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology (1951–1962).^[2]

Works

The Hadrianic school: a chapter in the history of Greek art, 1934
Roman Medallions, 1944
Some Notes on Artists in the Roman World, Brussels, 1951
'The Ara Pacis Reconsidered', Proc. Brit. Acad. ,1953
(with J.B. Ward-Perkins) The Shrine of St Peter and the Vatican Excavations, 1956
The Flavian Reliefs from the Palazzo delle Cancellaria in Rome, 1957
Art in Roman Britain, 1962
Art in Britain under the Romans, 1964
The Art of the Romans, 1965
Death and Burial in the Roman World, 1971
Animals in Roman Life and Art, 1973

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 Malcolm Todd, ‘Toynbee, Jocelyn Mary Catherine (1897–1985)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 4 July 2008
↑ Cambridge University Alumni

External links

Sorensen, Lee. "Toynbee, Jocelyn Mary C[atherine]." In Dictionary of Art Historians (retrieved December 20, 2009).
The Ara Pacis Reconsidered, 1953, by Jocelyn M. C. Toynbee

Academic offices
Preceded by Arnold Walter Lawrence	Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology Cambridge University 1951 - 1962	Succeeded by Robert Manuel Cook

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 9876120 LCCN: n50014641 ISNI: 0000 0001 1020 8778 GND: 110116305 BNF: cb12096988g

Persondata
Name	Toynbee, Jocelyn
Alternative names
Short description	British archaeologist
Date of birth	3 March 1897
Place of birth	Paddington, London
Date of death	31 December 1985
Place of death	Oxford

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