Background
Lobel was born Mary Doreen Rogers in Bristol on 25 June 1900.
Lobel was born Mary Doreen Rogers in Bristol on 25 June 1900.
Mary Rogers graduated from Street Hugh"s College, Oxford in the 1920s and spent a short period teaching in Norwich.
She went to Clifton High School and during a school vacation she helped the coptologist West.E. Crum to prepare his A Coptic Dictionary. Mary Lobel worked on the Victoria County History as a contributor to A History of the County of Oxford from the 1930s and as its Oxfordshire county editor from the 1950s until 1972. Thereafter she concentrated on editing the three-volume British Atlas of Historic Towns.
While editing the Victoria County History, Lobel was also a librarian at Somerville College, Oxford.
Lobel was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1990.