Background
Mary Bennett was the daughter of historian H. A. L. Fisher, and was educated at Oxford High School.
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Mary Bennett
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She obtained her first degree (in Classics) from Somerville College, Oxford, and then studied abroad, researching into the grain supply of ancient Rome.
Career
During the Second World War she worked for the British Ministry of Information and for the British Broadcasting Corporation, and after the war went into the Colonial Office with responsibility at various times for Gibraltar, Malta and Cyprus. In retirement, she wrote up her researches into family history:
The Ilberts in India, 1882-1886: an Imperial Miniature (1995)
Who was Doctor Jackson? Two Calcutta Families, 1830-1855 (2002)
Street Hilda"s College, Oxford commissioned Jean Cooke to make a portrait of its principal.
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British