Her official website explains: “What made her upbringing unusual, even for its time, was that she was homeschooled largely by her father, an American. Her family was a “comfortably well-off middle-class family” from Torquay, Devon. His widow Barbara, the second Lady Mallowan, died in Wallingford in 1993, aged 85.Agatha Christie, real name Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born on September 15, 1890. He died on 19 August 1978, aged 74, in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, and was interred alongside his first wife, Dame Agatha, in the churchyard of St Mary's, Cholsey. He and Dame Agatha Christie were among a number of married couples each of whom held knightly honours in their own right. Mallowan was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1960 Queen's Birthday Honours, and knighted in 1968. Max's beloved wife, Lady Mallowan, known to millions as Dame Agatha Christie, died in 1976 the following year, Mallowan married Barbara Hastings Parker, an archaeologist, who had been his epigraphist at Nimrud and Secretary of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq. Mallowan gave an account of his work in Twenty-five Years of Mesopotamian Discovery (1956) and his wife Agatha Christie described his work in Syria in Come, Tell Me How You Live (1946). Layard), which he published in Nimrud and its Remains (2 volumes, 1966). In 1947, he also became director of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq (1947–1961) and directed the resumption of its work at Nimrud (previously excavated by A. At some point he also held the rank of wing commander, for when he finally resigned his commission on 10 February 1954, he was permitted to retain that rank in retirement.Īfter the war, in 1947, he was appointed Professor of Western Asiatic Archaeology at the University of London, a position which he held until elected a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1962. He was commissioned as a pilot officer on probation in the Administrative and Special Duties Branch on 11 February 1941, promoted flying officer on 18 August 1941, flight lieutenant on 1 April 1943. He was also the first to excavate archaeological sites in the Balikh Valley, to the west of the Khabur basin.įollowing the outbreak of the Second World War he served with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in North Africa, being based for part of 1943 at the ancient city of Sabratha. His excavations included the prehistoric village at Tell Arpachiyah, and the sites at Chagar Bazar and Tell Brak in the Upper Khabur area ( Syria). In 1932, after a short time working at Nineveh with Reginald Campbell Thompson, Mallowan became a field director for a series of expeditions jointly run by the British Museum and the British School of Archaeology in Iraq. It was at the Ur site, in 1930, that he first met Agatha Christie, the famous author, whom he married the same year. He first worked as an apprentice to Leonard Woolley at the archaeological site of Ur (1925–31), which was thought to be the capital of Mesopotamian civilization. He was educated at Rokeby School and Lancing College (where he was a contemporary of Evelyn Waugh) and studied classics at New College, Oxford. Born Edgar Mallowan in Wandsworth on, he was the son of Frederick Mallowan and his wife Marguerite (née Duvivier).
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