Hilda Lockhart Lorimer

Elizabeth Hilda Lockhart Lorimer (1873–1954) was a classical scholar who spent her career at Oxford University in the United Kingdom. Her best known work was in the field of Homeric archeology and ancient Greece, but she also visited and published on Turkey, Albania and the area that later became Yugoslavia. She almost never used her first name; her family called her Hiddo; and at Oxford she came to be known as Highland Hilda because of her Scottish background.

Lorimer was the second of eight children born to Reverend Robert Lorimer and his wife. Her brother David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the British Indian Army, a noted linguist and a political official in the British Indian government, which included a term as the British Political Representative in Cairo during the First World War. Her brothers Gordon and Bert worked in the civil administration in the Indian Political Service. Another, William, became Professor of Classics at St Andrews. Her sister Emilia became a notable poet, and her other sister Florence served as personal secretary to Aurel Stein at the British Museum.

Lorimer attended the High School of Dundee in Scotland from 1889 – 1893. She was granted a scholarship to Girton College at Cambridge, where she ranked first in her class. While attending Girton, Lorimer never actually attended classes in Cambridge and instead was taught by tutors coming out to her.

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