Dorothy Mary Mackay | |
Caption: | Dorothy Mackay, Archeologist |
Birth Name: | Dorothy Mary Simmons |
Birth Date: | 11 November 1881 |
Birth Place: | Croydon, England |
Death Place: | Beaconsfield, England |
Occupation: | Archaeologist, museum curator |
Nationality: | British |
Spouse: | Ernest J. H. Mackay |
Dorothy Mary Mackay (née Simmons, 11 November 1881 – 8 February 1953) was a British archaeologist who worked in Egypt, Iraq, and sites of the Indus Valley civilisation.[1] In 1940, she was appointed an assistant keeper at the Department of Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, and between 1948–1951 she acted as a curator at the Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut.[2]
In 1912, Dorothy married the archaeologist Ernest J. H. Mackay, with whom she often cooperated in later years.
She was a member of the Croydon Branch of the Women's Social and Political Union.[3]