Mary Cathcart Borer


Mary Cathcart Borer was a British writer, screenwriter, playwright, journalist and scientific researcher.

Biography

Mary Irene Cathcart Borer was born on 3 February 1906 in Hackney, London to Florence Mary Borer and Archibald James Borer, a hospital secretary. Borer was baptised at the Parish Church of St Andrew, Stoke Newington in April 1906.
In 1928, Borer graduated from University College London with a Bachelor of Science. Borer initially worked as a scientific researcher at the then Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, before marrying the Egyptologist Oliver Humphrys Myers in 1935. From 1935-1937, Borer participated in two Egypt Exploration Society excavations directed by Myers at sites in Armant, Kingdom of Egypt. The couple divorced sometime around 1939.

Personal life

Borer died on 2 December 1994 in St Albans, and was living in the market town of Tring prior to her death.

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