Margaret Maitland Howard

• Birth Name — Margaret Maitland Howard • Born — 31 July 1898 • Birthplace — Barnet, United Kingdom • Died — 31 August 1983 • Education — Royal Academy School of Art • Occupation — Modeller, sculptor, book illustrator • Employer — Institute of Archaeology • Illustration — Bust of V. Gordon Childe. Marjorie Howard, c. 1958. Institute of Archaeology library, London. • Illustration — A bust of Mortimer Wheeler in the Institute of Archaeology library. Probably the bust made by Marjorie Howard.

Daughter of artist and civil servant Henry James Howard, Margaret (she was always however known as "Marjorie") Maitland Howard was born 31 July 1898 in Barnet, and grew up at Sutton, Surrey, where she spent most of her life. She was educated at the Royal Academy School of Art from 1917, and exhibited regularly between 1923 and 1935 at the Academy's summer exhibitions.

Howard had an early career in book illustration, producing an illustrated edition of the Fables of Aesop that was published by John Lane at The Bodley Head in 1926. She also illustrated Elizabeth Ward's Who goes to the wood (Lutterworth, 1940). In 1946, she illustrated Frederick Zeuner's Dating the past: An introduction to geochronology which went through several editions and was still in print in 1970. From 1948 until her retirement in 1960, she worked at the Institute of Archaeology, now part of University College London. She created models for Frederick Zeuner to use in his lectures and busts of V. Gordon Childe (c.1958) and Mortimer Wheeler. In 1956, she supervised archaeological work at Balawat for the British Institute for the Study of Iraq and subsequently prepared drawings of the Balawat Gates.

After her retirement from the Institute of Archaeology she continued to illustrate books, collaborating particularly with Ian Wolfran Cornwall on his series of books about the prehistoric world. She died 31 August 1983.

The canonical record carries the following identifying particulars.

The following is established of origins and background. Howard died in 1983. It is also recorded that margaret Maitland Howard was born in 1898 at London Borough of Barnet.