Background
Rule, née Martin, was born in Buckinghamshire on 27 September 1928.
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Rule, née Martin, was born in Buckinghamshire on 27 September 1928.
She studied chemistry at the University of London.
She led the project that excavated and raised the Tudor warship Mary Rose in 1982. She was the curator of the Fishbourne Roman Palace, when she began her work in maritime archaeology when she was consulted on the initial search for the wreck of Mary Rose. In March 1982 Margaret Rule visited Adelaide, South Australia, as the keynote speaker to the Second Southern Hemisphere Conference on Maritime Archaeology.
Rule had been living with Parkinson"s disease and arthritis in her later years.
She died on 9 April 2015, aged 86. British Sub Aqua Club - "Tributes paid to Doctor Margaret Rule, lead archaeologist of the Mary Rose" Monday 13 April 2015 Isabel Berwick, Financial Times - "Margaret Rule, archaeologist, 1928-2015" Friday 17 April 2015 Peter Marsden, The Guardian - "Archaeologist responsible for raising the wreck of the Mary Rose, Henry VIII’s flagship, from the seabed" Thursday 16 April 2015 Matthew Bannister, Last Word, British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 - "Margaret Rule was the archaeologist who supervised the raising of Henry VIII"s flagship, the Mary Rose from the seabed under the waters of the Solent" Friday 24th April 2015.
During the Conference she visited the historic Murray River port of Morgan and dived with members of the Society for Underwater Historical Research (SUHR) on a project to record and recover items from the riverbed alongside the town"s massive wharf.