Editing Kathleen Kenyon (section)

==Biography==
Kathleen Kenyon was born in London, England, in 1906. She was the eldest daughter of Sir [[Frederic Kenyon]], [[Bible|biblical]] scholar and later director of the [[British Museum]]. Her grandfather was lawyer and Fellow of [[All Souls College]], [[John Robert Kenyon]], and her great-great-grandfather was the politician and lawyer [[Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Davis |first=Miriam C |date=2016-09-16 |title=Dame Kathleen Kenyon |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315430690 |doi=10.4324/9781315430690|isbn=9781315430690 }}</ref> She grew up in [[Bloomsbury]], in a house attached to the British Museum, with her mother, Amy Kenyon, and sister Nora Kenyon. Known for being hard-headed and stubborn, Kathleen grew up as a [[tomboy]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Davis |first=Miriam C. |title=Dame Kathleen Kenyon: Digging Up the Holy Land |publisher=Left Coast Press, Inc. |year=2008 |isbn=9781598743265 |location=Walnut Creek, CA |pages=16 |language=English}}</ref> fishing, climbing trees and playing a variety of sports.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Kenyon, Dame Kathleen Mary (1906–1978), archaeologist |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-31306 |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/31306}}</ref>

Determined that she and her sister should be well educated, Kathleen's father encouraged wide reading and independent study. In later years Kenyon would remark that her father's position at the British Museum was particularly helpful for her education. Kathleen was an excellent student, winning awards at school and particularly excelling in history.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web |title=Kathleen Kenyon |url=https://www.some.ox.ac.uk/eminent/kathleen-kenyon/ |access-date=2022-09-02 |website=Somerville College Oxford |date=10 June 2021 |language=en-GB}}</ref> She studied first at [[St Paul's Girls' School]], where she was head girl, before winning an [[Exhibition (scholarship)|Exhibition]] to read history at [[Somerville College, Oxford]].<ref name="auto"/> While at Oxford, Kenyon won a [[Blue (university sport)|Blue]] in [[University Match (hockey)|hockey]] and became the first female president of the Oxford University Archaeological Society.<ref name="auto"/> She graduated in 1928 with a third class degree and began a career in archaeology the following year.<ref name="auto"/>

Although working on several important sites across Europe, it was her excavations in [[Tell es-Sultan]] (Jericho) in the 1950s that established her as one of the foremost archaeologists in the field.<ref name="auto"/> In 1962, Kenyon was made Principal of [[St Hugh's College, Oxford]].<ref name="auto"/> She retired in 1973 to [[Erbistock]] and was appointed a [[Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|DBE]]. Kenyon never married.<ref name=DavisBroshi/> From 1974, Kenyon was the honorary vice president of the Chester Archaeological Society.<ref name=Chester>{{citation |author=Chester Archaeological Society |title=Obituary: Dame Kathleen Kenyon |year=1978 |journal=Journal of the Chester Archaeological Society |volume=61 |page=96}}</ref>