Lilian Hamilton Jeffery, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lilian Hamilton Jeffery

British archaeologist, classical philologist and epigraphist

Date of Birth: 05-Jan-1915

Place of Birth: Westcliff-on-Sea, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 29-Sep-1986

Profession: classical scholar, archaeologist, anthropologist, classical archaeologist, classical philologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Lilian Hamilton Jeffery (5 January 1915 – 29 September 1986) was a British archaeologist, classical philologist and epigraphist best remembered for her 1961 work The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece.
Building on the work of Adolf Kirchhoff and Antony E.
Raubitschek, Jeffery surveyed the development of the Greek alphabet from its adoption down to the fifth century BC and in so doing established the chronology of archaic inscriptions.