Marion Colthorpe
{{Short description|British Elizabethan scholar (died 2021)}}
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Marion Evelyn Colthorpe {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FSA}} (1933/4 – 20 January 2021) was a British historian and Elizabethan scholar.{{cite news |url=https://www.maldonandburnhamstandard.co.uk/announcements/deaths/deaths/19063890.Marion_Evelyn__FSA_Colthorpe/ |title=Marion Evelyn, FSA Colthorpe |work=Maldon Standard |accessdate=10 February 2021}}
Biography
Colthorpe studied English at St Hugh's College, Oxford and subsequently trained as a barrister, being called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn.{{cite newsletter |title=Fellows Remembered: Marion Colthorpe FSA |work=Society of Antiquaries of London Online Newsletter |author1=Wilson, Jean |date=27 January 2021 |url=https://mailchi.mp/sal/salon-issue-462#remembered |issue=462}} She spent a great deal of time researching her life's work 'The Elizabethan Court Day by Day', published online by the Folger Institute.
She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 10 October 2018.
Select publications
- Colthorpe, M. E. 2017. [https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/The_Elizabethan_Court_Day_by_Day The Elizabethan Court Day by Day], Folger.
- Colthorpe, M. 1989. [https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/details.xhtml?recordId=3237339 "Queen Elizabeth I and Norwich Cathedral"], Norfolk Archaeology 40(3). {{doi|10.5284/1078249}}
- Colthorpe, M. 1987. "The Theobalds entertainment for Queen Elizabeth I in 1591, with a transcript of the Gardener's Speech", Records of Early English Drama 12(1), pp. 2–9.
- Colthorpe, M. 1986. "A 'prorogued' Elizabethan tournament", Records of Early English Drama 11(2), pp. 3–9.
- Colthorpe, M. 1984. "Edmund Campion’s Alleged Interview with Queen Elizabeth I in 1581", British Catholic History 17(2), pp. 197–200. {{doi|10.1017/S0034193200001047}}
- Colthorpe, M. and Bateman, L. 1977. Queen Elizabeth I and Harlow.
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Category:Year of birth uncertain
Category:Alumni of St Hugh's College, Oxford
Category:Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Category:British women historians
Category:20th-century British historians
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