biography
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Bell, Gertrude (Margaret Lowthian)
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| female
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| lived:
| (1868–1926)
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| biography:
| Archaeologist and traveller, born at Washington Hall, Durham, NE England, UK. She studied at Oxford, and travelled much in the Middle East. During World War 1 she was seconded to the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force in Basra and Baghdad. In 1915 she was appointed to the British intelligence service of the Arab Bureau in Iraq, and served as a political officer. She knew and worked with T E Lawrence and was influential in the selection of Faisal I as king of Iraq. She founded and directed the National Museum of Baghdad and became director of antiquities at the British High Commission in Iraq. |
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