Maria Millington Lathbury Evans (Q624)

Chenies Street Chambers

16 Chenies Street Chambers, W. C. (British English)

1891

coordinate location

51°31'16.17179"N, 0°7'58.33160"W

1 reference

Journal of Hellenic Studies

Hemel Hempstead

Nash Mills, Hemel Hempstead, Herts. (British English)

1900

Nash Mills House

1 reference

reference book

Englishwoman's Year Book and Directory

Berkhamsted

Britwell, Berkhamsted, Herts. (British English)

1911

Britwell

1 reference

Journal of Roman Studies

London W

9 Kensington Park Gardens, W. (British English)

1925

1 reference

Journal of Roman Studies

Oxford

Somerville College

1888

1891

1 reference

Somerville College Oxford, Report 1913-14 and Calendar 1914-15 [Women's Work Collection, IWM] (English)

London W

34 Brook Street, W (English)

1915

sourcing circumstances

circa

1 reference

EM 1/14 Applications for Lectureships (English)

Wimbledon

19 Lingfield Road, Wimbledon (English)

1887

This was Lathbury's childhood home. (English)

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Journal of Hellenic Studies

1888

1891

Lathbury gained Class II mark. She was a Mary Conybeare Scholar. (British English)

1 reference

Association for the Education of Women

Somerville College Oxford, Report 1913-14 and Calendar 1914-15 [Women's Work Collection, IWM] (British English)

October 1888^Gregorian

Lathbury was registered as an AEW student while attending Somerville College. (English)

1 reference

University College London

Volume of AEW Calendars 1887-1893 St Anne's College ANN/R 9/2 (English)

1888

1889

Reginald Stuart Poole

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1888-9 PROF 57 (English)

University College London Session Fees Books

alternative educational provision

The University Extension Journal of August 1891 noted that Lathbury was a former Extension student, and had taken Jane Harrison's Greek Art course which inspired her to continue studies and go to Sommerville. This was the Greek Art course Jane Harrison taught at the Wimbledon Centre in Michaelmas Term 1886 (English)

October 1886^Gregorian

December 1886^Gregorian

Wimbledon Centre for University Extension

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alternative educational provision

University Extension Journal 15 Aug 1891, p 85 (English)

academic subject

English

October 1883^Gregorian

March 1884^Gregorian

Lathbury took J. Churton Collins' two-term course on Shakespeare (English)

Wimbledon Centre for University Extension

1 reference

EM 2_23_1 Lecturers and Examiners Reports Michaelmas 1883 Lent 1884 (English)

alternative educational provision

Lathbury took Philip Wickstead's two-term course on Dante. (English)

October 1887^Gregorian

March 1888^Gregorian

Wimbledon Centre for University Extension

1 reference

EM 2/23/6 Lecturers and Examiners Reports Lent 1888 (English)

academic degree

master's degree

conferred by

Trinity College Dublin

1904

1 reference

Somerville College Oxford, Report 1913-14 and Calendar 1914-15 [Women's Work Collection, IWM] (English)

1921

1 reference

London Society for the Extension of University Teaching

Somerville College Oxford, Report 1913-14 and Calendar 1914-15 [Women's Work Collection, IWM] (English)

Certificate

conferred by

Both Jane Harrison and course examiner William Martin Conway marked Lathbury down for distinction for "Greek Art". The examiner's report noted that Certificates had been sent on. (English)

1887

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EM 2/23/4 Lecturers and Examiner's Reports Lent 1887 (English)

family name at birth

Lathbury (English)

alternatively Millington Lathbury (English)

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England and Wales Census

married name

Evans (English)

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was member of

1892

1 reference

Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies

Numismatic Chronicle

1891

1 reference

Journal of Hellenic Studies

Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

1911

1 reference

Journal of Roman Studies

Classical Association

1905

1 reference

Proceedings of the Classical Association

British Association for the Advancement of Science

1897

1 reference

Report of the British Association

International Congress of Orientalists

1892

1 reference

Transactions of the International Congress of Orientalists

Aristotelian Society

2 November 1891^Gregorian

1 reference

Association for the Education of Women

Mind (January 1892), p 159 (English)

1890

Lathbury is listed as a Student Member (English)

1 reference

British Museum Reading Room

Volume of AEW Calendars 1887-1893 St Anne's College ANN/R 9/2 (English)

6 July 1885^Gregorian

1 reference

BM Reading Room Admissions Register 1880-1886 (English)

British Museum archive

held position

Lecturer (Extension)

Chelsea Centre for University Extension

19 January 1892^Gregorian

location

British Museum

collaborated with

Eugénie Sellers Strong

Greek Art and Life (10 lectures) (English)

Sellers and Lathbury's lectures were to be held in the British Museum's Greek galleries; Sellers' lectures were first, followed by Lathbury's. An 8.30 pm class. (English)

Tickets for the whole course were priced at 10s, special price for teachers 5s, tickets for "Artisans" 2s 6d (on sale in the Elgin Room) (English)

Sellers was unable to complete delivery of her lectures at the original time as she had come down with influenza. Lathbury delivered her section of the course in place of Sellers, who returned to deliver her part of the course when she had recovered. (English)

4 references

Pall Mall Gazette 4 November 1891 (British English)

The Athenaeum, 16 January 1892 (British English)

The Builder 1 January 1892 (English)

The Builder 30 January 1892, p 73 (English)

8 October 1891^Gregorian

location

British Museum

[Greek Archaeology] (English)

Lathbury delivered these lectures in the British Museum's Greek galleries. Her first lecture was on Greek Dress. A 3 pm class. (English)

3 references

The Women's Herald, 3 October 1891 p 789 (British English)

The Queen 17 Oct 1891 p 611 (British English)

The Builder 19 September 1891, p 248 (English)

Lecturer (freelance)

28 January 1892^Gregorian

Greek Religious Customs (4 lectures) (English)

Tickets obtainable direct from Millington-Lathbury at her address, 16 Chenies Street Chambers, Bloomsbury (English)

2 references

Extention Journal 15 Jan 1892 p 3-4 (English)

Trustees Minute Book 13 (Vol 45-47) May 1889-Apr 1896 (English)

British Museum archive

served on

Council

Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies

1892

0 references

Council

1924

1 reference

The Numismatist, August 1924 (British English)

committee

International Congress of Women

1899

specific role

Member of Education Committee (English)

1 reference

International Council of Women, Handbook of the International Congress (1899) (English)

spoke at

meeting

Hair dressing of Roman ladies (British English)

18 January 1906^Gregorian

Evans also exhibited large-scale photographs of coins to illustrate her paper. (British English)

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A Silver Badge of Thetford (British English)

17 January 1907^Gregorian

1 reference

The memorial badge of Anne Eldred (British English)

19 March 1908^Gregorian

1 reference

A silver plaque of Charles I as Prince (British English)

23 April 1908^Gregorian

1 reference

Association for the Education of Women

Numismatic Chronicle

16 November 1895^Gregorian

Death and the Underworld as Illustrated in Greek Art (English)

1 reference

Association of Women Pioneer Lecturers

Oxford Magazine 23 October 1895, p 23 (English)

1893

Lady Evans is listed as one of the women in attendance at the first annual public meeting in support of the Council of the Association of Women Pioneer Lecturers (British English)

sourcing circumstances

presumably

2 references

Daily Chronicle 9 March 1893 (British English)

Studley College archive

William Henry St John Hope

book of newspaper cuttings held at the Museum of English Rural Life (FR WAR 5/8/1) (English)

corresponded with

1 reference

SAL/01/03/92 Loose correspondence, 1909 (English)

Society of Antiquaries of London archive

Alexander Stuart Murray

1 reference

Department of Greece and Rome Original Letters 1891; Original Letters 1892-5 L-R (English)

British Museum archive

work(s) published in

The Academy

16 January 1892^Gregorian

0 references

Burlington Magazine

1910

0 references

Archaeologia Cambriensis

1876

1 reference

Archaeology Data Service Library

Numismatic Chronicle

1906

1907

1908

1909

1 reference

Archaeology Data Service Library

Transactions of the Birmingham and Midland Institute

1 reference

Archaeology Data Service Library

donor to

Ashmolean Museum

of (free text)

Cast of a head of Aphrodite of Knidian type (British English)

1 reference

described at URL

https://collections.ashmolean.org/collection/browse-9148/object/162353

Society of Antiquaries of London

23 June 1921^Gregorian

Evans donated a copy of Ginch's Ordnance Survey of Hertfordshire (British English)

1 reference

Society of Antiquaries of London Minute Books

London Society for the Extension of University Teaching

SAL 02/49 (British English)

British Museum

described at URL

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG69224

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applicant to

1915

sourcing circumstances

circa

Introduction to the Minoan Civilisation (English)

Stated previous experience: Some years on the Panels of the London Society for the Extension of University Teaching and the Oxford UE Delegacy (English)

Evans was added to the panel March 1915 (English)

is successful

successful

1 reference

EM 1/14 Applications for Lectureships (English)