Petrie, (Lady) Hilda Mary Isabel

British Egyptologist. Born, Dublin 1871. Died, London 1956. Through her interest in Egyptology she met, then married, Flinders Petrie in 1896. Worked with her husband on his excavations, helping to raise the money to fund their work. She also assisted Margaret Murray with her excavations of the Osireion at Abydos, 1902-3.

• Who Was Who in Egyptology (4th ed. 2012), 427-8 fig. (portrait).