Nancy Champion de Crespigny later Movius
| Miss later Mrs Nancy Champion de Crespigny later Movius | |||||||
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| Born | 1910 | ||||||
| Died | 2003 | ||||||
| Residence |
Newnhall College, Cambridge [1935] Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., USA [1937] | ||||||
| Occupation |
archaeologist museum work | ||||||
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Nancy de Crespigny (27 November 1910 – 6 December 2003) married Hallam Leonard Movius (28 November 1907 – 30 May 1987) in London on 25 September 1936. Both were archaeologists; Hallam served with US military in WWII; by 1953 was a professor at Harvard University.
Nancy Champion de Crespigny (1910-2003), the second child of Constantine Trent Champion de Crespigny and his wife Beatrix née Hughes, was the sister of my grandfather Geoff. She was a close lifelong friend of my grandmother Kathleen, Geoff’s wife.
Nancy went to Woodlands School in Adelaide and then attended the University of Melbourne, where she graduated in 1933 with a history degree. She studied archeology at the University of London and Newnham College of Cambridge University.
The photograph comes from the State Library of Australia. It was taken 8 March 1936 by Charles Pearcy Mountford (1890-1976) at Salt Creek, also known as also known as Winnininnie Creek, about 330 kilometres north of Adelaide.
The photo of Nancy is in the Mountford-Sheard Collection. [ayfamilyhisotry.com Posted by Anne Young in Champion de Crespigny, Movius, South Australia, Trove, Trove Tuesday]
Hallam Leonard Movius (1907–1987) was an American archaeologist most famous for his work on the Palaeolithic period.
He married Nancy Champion de Crespigny (born 1910), daughter of the Australian physician Sir Trent Champion de Crespigny on 25 September 1936. The American poet Geoffrey Movius (born 21 January 1940) was a son
an Australian archaeology student at Cambridge University, Nancy Champion de Crespigny, from Adelaide, South Australia, was one of the field assistants. Hallam and Nancy were married in 1936. Thus began not only a connubium but also a very effective professional collaboration. In a publication on his Irish work Movius thanked Nancy for her help with the management of the expedition in 1935. Nancy continued to provide much of the essential logistical and managerial support for all of Movius’s subsequent fieldwork.
... A son, Geoffrey, had been born before the war in 1940, and now a daughter, Alice, was born in 1947. [from Memoir by Harvey M. Bricker 2007]