Margaret Stefana Drower

Peggy Drower
MBE
Born
Margaret Stefana Drower

8 December 1911
Southampton, Hampshire, England
Died12 November 2012(2012-11-12) (aged 100)[1]
London, England
NationalityBritish
OccupationAcademic
SpouseCampbell Hackforth-Jones (m. 1947)
Parent(s)Sir Edwin and Lady Edith Drower
Academic background
Alma materUniversity College London
Academic work
DisciplineHistorian
Sub-disciplineAncient Near East
InstitutionsUniversity College London
Notable worksFlinders Petrie: A Life in Archaeology

Margaret Stefana Hackforth-Jones MBE (née Drower; 8 December 1911 – 12 November 2012), known as Peggy Dower, was an English historian of Ancient Near Eastern History and Egyptology.[2] She was awarded the MBE and elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.[3][4] She wrote the definitive biography of Flinders Petrie.[5]

  1. ^ England and Wales, Death Index, 1989-2021
  2. ^ "Peggy Drower". The Times. 20 December 2012. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
  3. ^ "Margaret Stefana Drower". University College London. 16 November 2012.
  4. ^ Drower, Margaret (2004). Letters from the desert: the correspondence of Flinders and Hilda Petrie. Warminster: Aris & Phillips. ISBN 0856687480.
  5. ^ Drower, Margaret S. (1995). Flinders Petrie a life in archaeology (2nd ed.). Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299146238.