Amice Calverley

Amice Mary Calverley was born in London, England on 9 April 1896. Her family first moved to South Africa, then on to Canada. She studied music and earned some money from her needlework, before going to New York where she worked as a mannequin and dress-designer at Wanamaker's Store. After gaining a scholarship in 1922 to study at the Royal College of Music she returned to England. In 1926 she started to teach herself drawing for archaeology, during which process she upset a bottle of ink over an 'immemorial sherd' at the British Museum, and became involved with the Egyptian Exploration Society in 1927. ==Achievements in Egyptology==

In 1928, Amice Calverley was engaged by the Society to work as part of a project to record the decoration in the temple of King Sethos I at Abydos. During the winter of 1928–9, Calverley was working singlehandedly to draw and photograph the reliefs when John D. Rockefeller Jr. visited. After working in Abydos, she went to Austria in 1933, where she wrote a string quartet in F Minor. == War and post-war humanitarian work ==

When World War II started, she became a driver for the Invalid Children's Aid Association during the evacuation scheme in the UK, before returning to Canada due to family illness. ==See also==