Joan Mervyn Hussey (1907 – 2006 ), MA PhD FSA FRHistS, British Byzantine scholar and historian.

Hussey was educated privately at home, at Trowbridge High School for Girls (now The John of Gaunt School), and at the Lycée Victor Duruy in Paris. She went on to St Hugh’s College, Oxford, graduating with a BA and MA in Modern History in 1925. Following a period of supervision under Sir David Ross, she moved to the University of London and in 1935 completed a PhD supervised by Norman H. Baynes.

International Travelling Fellow of the Federation of University Women 1934-5 Pfeiffer Research Fellow, Girton College, Cambridge 1935-7 Assistant Lecturer, Manchester University 1937-43 Member of Council, St Hugh’s College, Oxford 1940–6; Honorary Fellow 1968-2006 Lecturer, Bedford College, London 1943-47; Reader 1947-50 Professor of History, Royal Holloway College, London 1950-74 President, British National Committee for Byzantine Studies 1961-71

During her retirement she was received into the Roman Catholic church by the noted Jesuit theologian John Coventry. She was unmarried and had no children.

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