Mary Cathcart Borer
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Mary Cathcart Borer | |
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 Photograph of Mary Irene Cathcart Borer – Angus McBean, c. 1950 | |
| Born | Mary Irene Cathcart Borer 3 February 1906 |
| Died | 2 December 1994 (aged 88) St. Albans, Hertfordshire, UK |
| Other names | Mary Irene Cathcart Myers |
| Education | University College London, Bachelor of Science, 1928 |
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Mary Cathcart Borer (married name Myers; 3 February 1906 – 2 December 1994) was a British writer, screenwriter, playwright, journalist and scientific researcher.[2][3][4][5][6]
Mary Irene Cathcart Borer was born on 3 February 1906 in Hackney, London to Florence Mary Borer (née Edmonds) and Archibald James Borer, a hospital secretary.[7][4][8][9] Borer was baptised at the Parish Church of St Andrew, Stoke Newington in April 1906.[8]
In 1928, Borer graduated from University College London with a Bachelor of Science.[6] Borer initially worked as a scientific researcher at the then Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, before marrying the Egyptologist Oliver Humphrys Myers in 1935.[10][4][11][12] From 1935–1937, Borer participated in two Egypt Exploration Society excavations directed by Myers at sites in Armant, Kingdom of Egypt (present-day, Egypt).[13][14][6] The couple divorced sometime around 1939.[4][11][12][6]
