Mary Chubb

Mary Chubb (22 March 1903 – 22 January 2003) was a British writer and archaeologist. She has been described as "the first professional excavation administrator".

Personal life She was the daughter of John Burland Chubb A.R.I.B.A. (1861–1955), and a descendant of the Bridgwater artist John Chubb (1746–1818). She was a sister-in-law of the Egyptologist Stephen Glanville. At her death, she was buried in the churchyard of Froyle, Hampshire, near her parents.

Career

Archaeology Chubb has been described as an "accidental archaeologist". Having been sent into the basement to look for a drawing that was to be included in one of the Society's publications, she found an object that would trigger her interest in archaeology, something that the previous twelve months of work had not. She then spent 1938 at the University of Chicago writing up their recent excavations. Her two main books were published in the 1950s; Nefertiti Lived Here (1954) and City in the Sand (1957). These books are about Chubb's involvement in the 1930s excavations of Tell el-Amarna in Egypt, and of Ur and Eshnunna in Iraq. They were republished in the 1990s, with new introductions and added epilogues.

She curated her family's archive of the art and papers of her ancestor, the Bridgwater artist John Chubb (1746–1816), and wrote two articles about it in The Countryman. The collection was sold to the Blake Museum, Bridgwater, in 2004.

Selected works

Autobiographical

Children's books