16 Facts About Dorothy Lamb

Dorothy Lamb was born in Manchester on October 4,1887, to the mathematician Sir Horace Lamb and his wife Elizabeth.

Dorothy Lamb's siblings included the classicist Walter Lamb and the painter Henry Lamb.

Dorothy Lamb's nephew was the climatologist Hubert Lamb and her great-nephew was the Liberal Democrat politician Norman Lamb.

Dorothy Lamb later attended Newnham College, Cambridge, where she read classics from 1906 to 1910 and graduating with honors.

In 1910 Dorothy Lamb was in Athens working on a catalogue of the Greek terracotta figurines in the Acropolis Museum, a project the British School initiated on behalf of the Acropolis Museum.

Dorothy Lamb returned to England, first stopping in Paris to do additional research on the terracottas at the Louvre.

Dorothy Lamb finished her work on her catalogue in 1912 and the first volume, edited by Guy Dickens, was published that year by Cambridge University Press.

The British School's publications committee recommended revisions, so Dorothy Lamb continued to work on the second volume of the Catalogue from 1912 to 1914.

Later in 1912, Dorothy Lamb travelled to the United States and spent a year lecturing on classical archaeology at Bryn Mawr College.

From 1913 to 1914, as recipient of Newnham College's Mary Ewart Travelling Scholarship, Dorothy Lamb returned to Athens to continue work on the revisions to her catalogue.

Dorothy Lamb participated in the American Archaeological Expedition to Melas in Greece in 1913 and 1914.

In 1916 Dorothy Lamb was living in England working for the British government.

Dorothy Lamb worked as an assistant in the Ministry of National Service and the Ministry of Food.

Dorothy Lamb then became secretary to the London Committee Supreme Economic Council.

Brooke died in 1937, and in 1939 Dorothy Lamb remarried to Sir Walter Nicholson.

Dorothy Lamb was widowed again in 1946 and died in 1967.