Margaret Benson
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"Margaret Benson" was an England/English author and amateur Egyptologist and one of the six children of Edward White Benson, an Anglican clergyman (later Archbishop of Canterbury), and his wife Mary Sidgwick Benson, the sister of philosopher Henry Sidgwick. Margaret was one of the first women to be admitted to Oxford University, where she attended Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford/Lady Margaret Hall.

She was the first woman to be granted a concession to excavate in Egypt. With her companion, Janet Gourlay, she excavated for three seasons (1895-97) in the Temple of the Goddess Mut, Precinct of Mut/Mut Complex, a part of Karnak, Thebes, Egypt/Thebes.

She suffered from frail health most of her life and was not able to continue the excavation after 1897. In 1907, she suffered a severe mental breakdown and died in 1916 (in the Priory, Roehampton) at the age of 51.

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