1. Jocelyn Toynbee was the daughter of Harry Valpy Toynbee, secretary of the Charity Organization Society, and his wife Sarah Edith Marshall, educated at Cambridge University at a time when women could not graduate.
15 Facts About Jocelyn Toynbee
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Jocelyn Toynbee's sister, Margaret Toynbee was an Oxford Don.
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Jocelyn Toynbee's father had a breakdown when she was around 10 and was institutionalised for the rest of his life meaning that her mother, Edith, was the most dominant figure in the children's lives.
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Jocelyn Toynbee drove them towards scholarships "pouring all her own frustrated education into driving them on to academic success".
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Jocelyn Toynbee was awarded a scholarship to and educated at Winchester High School for Girls and at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she achieved a First in the Classical Tripos.
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Jocelyn Toynbee completed her doctoral thesis at Oxford University on the subject of Hadrianic sculpture, awarded her DPhil in 1930.
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Jocelyn Toynbee's earlier visits to the British School at Rome brought her into contact with Eugenie Sellers Strong who was an influence on Roman art.
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Jocelyn Toynbee wrote an obituary for Strong after her death in 1943 and dedicated her Thames and Hudson Monograph on 'The Art of the Romans' to Strong in 1965.
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Jocelyn Toynbee joined Ward-Perkins and Kathleen Kenyon on a survey of Roman and Christian remains in Tripolitania in 1948.
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Jocelyn Toynbee was Vice-President of The Roman Society from 1946.
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Jocelyn Toynbee was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1943.
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Jocelyn Toynbee was awarded the medal of the Royal Numismatic Society in 1948.
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Jocelyn Toynbee was awarded Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Newcastle and Liverpool.
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Jocelyn Toynbee was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1973.
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Jocelyn Toynbee was awarded the Frend Medal from the Society of Antiquaries of London for her work on early Christian Archaeology in 1984.