Jocelyn Toynbee
| Jocelyn Toynbee | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Jocelyn Mary Catherine Toynbee 3 March 1897 Paddington, London, England |
| Died | 31 December 1985 (aged 88) |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Archaeologist, art historian |
| Relatives | Arnold J. Toynbee (brother) |
Jocelyn Mary Catherine Toynbee, FSA, FBA (3 March 1897 in Paddington, London – 31 December 1985 in Oxford) was an English archaeologist and art historian. "In the mid-twentieth century she was the leading British scholar in Roman artistic studies and one of the recognized authorities in this field in the world."
Jocelyn Toynbee was the daughter of Harry Valpy Toynbee, secretary of the Charity Organization Society, and his wife Sarah Edith Marshall (1859–1939); her brother Arnold J. Toynbee was a notable universal historian.
Toynbee was educated at Winchester High School for Girls and (like her mother) at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she achieved a First in the Classical Tripos.
She was tutor in classics at St Hugh's College, Oxford (1921–24), lecturer in classics at Reading University, and from 1927 fellow and director of studies in classics at Newnham, where her students included Lilian Hamilton Jeffery. In 1931 she was appointed lecturer in classics at Cambridge before becoming the fourth Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology (1951–1962). In 1962, Toynbee organised a key exhibition at the Guildhall Museum on the subject of Roman Art in Britain, resulting in a key publication.
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