Agnes Muriel Clay
# Agnes Muriel Clay

Agnes Muriel Clay (1878–1962) was an English historian and writer. A classics tutor at Lady Margaret Hall, Clay wrote Roman law articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition and published Sources for Roman History B.C. 133–170 with Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge.

## Career

After attending Francis Holland School, Clay studied Classics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (LMH), graduating with a first class degree. In 1903, she co-authored Sources for Roman History B.C. 133–170 with Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge. Clay became a Classics tutor at LMH. She was a member of the Association for the Higher Education of Women, which promoted women's education in Oxford. In 1920, Clay was appointed a governor of the Frances Mary Buss Schools for Girls. From 1928 to 1945, Clay was the Honorary Secretary and Treasure of the Oxford Mission to $Calcutta.^{:166}$

Clay contributed to thirteen articles in the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, published in 1911. Her articles on Roman Law made her the only female author of a Classics entry in that edition of the $encyclopedia,^{:36}$ and one of 34 female contributors out of 1500 authors.

## Personal life

Clay was the daughter of a London barrister and had two brothers. She married Edward Wilde in 1910, and he died in $1931.^{:166}$

