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Vronwy Hankey (b. Vronwy Mary Fisher) (15 September 1916 – 11 May 1998) was an archaeologist, a specialist in Near Eastern, Minoan, and Mycenaean archaeology. A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, she also had an Honorary Fellowship at University College London and an attachment to the university's Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology.
In 1941 she married Henry Hankey, the son of Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey, who became a diplomat with whom she travelled for some years before he was posted to London in 1970. Hankey was the archaeologist "who identified Cyprus as the crucial link between East Mediterranean shipping in the Late Bronze Age."
A scholarship, the Vronwy Hankey Memorial Fund for Aegean Studies, is available from the British School at Athens.
