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Mary Archer
Mary Doreen Archer formally styled Lady Archer of Weston-super-Mare and more commonly known as Dame Mary Archer, DBE (née Weeden; born 22 December 1944), is a British scientist specialising in solar energy conversion.
Married to the novelist, Jeffrey Archer and appointed DBE in 2012, she currently serves as Chancellor of the University of Buckingham.
Born in 1944 at Epsom, Surrey, the younger daughter of Harold Norman Weeden FCA and Doreen née Cox, she attended Cheltenham Ladies' College, before reading chemistry at St Anne's College, Oxford. She pursued further studies in physical chemistry at Imperial College London, taking a PhD (Londin): her thesis was titled "Heterogeneous catalysis of inorganic substitution reactions" and was submitted in 1968.
Archer was elected a junior research fellow at St Hilda's College, Oxford, from 1968 to 1971. She was then a temporary lecturer in chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford for the 1971/72 academic year. After Oxford, she worked as a scientific researcher under George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham at the Royal Institution in London. It was during this period that she became interested in photoelectrochemistry, and has since written and lectured extensively on the subject.
Appointed to the board of directors of the International Solar Energy Society, Archer was elected a Fellow of Newnham College becoming a lecturer in chemistry at Trinity College in the University of Cambridge between 1976 and 1986. From 1984 to 1991, she was a director of the Fitzwilliam Museum Trust and a non-executive director of Mid Anglia Radio plc between 1988 and 1995. She sings first alto and in 1992 released a CD of Christmas carols, titled A Christmas Carol. Archer joined the Council of Lloyd's in 1988, becoming Chairman of Lloyd's Hardship Committee the following year, having been a Lloyd's 'Name' since 1977.
From 1988 to 2000, Archer chaired the National Energy Foundation, which promotes improving the use of energy in buildings, becoming its President then Patron. President of the UK Solar Energy Society (UK-ISES), Lady Archer is also a Companion of the Energy Institute and was awarded the institute's Melchett Medal in 2002.
Archer has written and contributed to various volumes of work concerning solar energy, including Photochemical & Photoelectrochemical Approaches to Solar Energy Conversion, which took 15 years to write. She co-edited Clean Electricity from Photovoltaics (2001); Molecular to Global Photosynthesis (2004); The 1702 Chair of Chemistry at Cambridge: Transformation and Change (2005) and Nanostructured and Photoelectrochemical Systems for Solar Photon Conversion (2008).
In 1994 Lady Archer was a non-executive director of Anglia Television at a time when it was the target of a takeover bid. Following reports from the London Stock Exchange, the Department of Trade and Industry appointed inspectors on 8 February 1994 to investigate possible insider trading contraventions by certain individuals, including her husband. No charges were brought. Between 1991 and 1999 she sat on the Council of the Cheltenham Ladies' College.
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Mary Archer
Mary Doreen Archer formally styled Lady Archer of Weston-super-Mare and more commonly known as Dame Mary Archer, DBE (née Weeden; born 22 December 1944), is a British scientist specialising in solar energy conversion.
Married to the novelist, Jeffrey Archer and appointed DBE in 2012, she currently serves as Chancellor of the University of Buckingham.
Born in 1944 at Epsom, Surrey, the younger daughter of Harold Norman Weeden FCA and Doreen née Cox, she attended Cheltenham Ladies' College, before reading chemistry at St Anne's College, Oxford. She pursued further studies in physical chemistry at Imperial College London, taking a PhD (Londin): her thesis was titled "Heterogeneous catalysis of inorganic substitution reactions" and was submitted in 1968.
Archer was elected a junior research fellow at St Hilda's College, Oxford, from 1968 to 1971. She was then a temporary lecturer in chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford for the 1971/72 academic year. After Oxford, she worked as a scientific researcher under George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham at the Royal Institution in London. It was during this period that she became interested in photoelectrochemistry, and has since written and lectured extensively on the subject.
Appointed to the board of directors of the International Solar Energy Society, Archer was elected a Fellow of Newnham College becoming a lecturer in chemistry at Trinity College in the University of Cambridge between 1976 and 1986. From 1984 to 1991, she was a director of the Fitzwilliam Museum Trust and a non-executive director of Mid Anglia Radio plc between 1988 and 1995. She sings first alto and in 1992 released a CD of Christmas carols, titled A Christmas Carol. Archer joined the Council of Lloyd's in 1988, becoming Chairman of Lloyd's Hardship Committee the following year, having been a Lloyd's 'Name' since 1977.
From 1988 to 2000, Archer chaired the National Energy Foundation, which promotes improving the use of energy in buildings, becoming its President then Patron. President of the UK Solar Energy Society (UK-ISES), Lady Archer is also a Companion of the Energy Institute and was awarded the institute's Melchett Medal in 2002.
Archer has written and contributed to various volumes of work concerning solar energy, including Photochemical & Photoelectrochemical Approaches to Solar Energy Conversion, which took 15 years to write. She co-edited Clean Electricity from Photovoltaics (2001); Molecular to Global Photosynthesis (2004); The 1702 Chair of Chemistry at Cambridge: Transformation and Change (2005) and Nanostructured and Photoelectrochemical Systems for Solar Photon Conversion (2008).
In 1994 Lady Archer was a non-executive director of Anglia Television at a time when it was the target of a takeover bid. Following reports from the London Stock Exchange, the Department of Trade and Industry appointed inspectors on 8 February 1994 to investigate possible insider trading contraventions by certain individuals, including her husband. No charges were brought. Between 1991 and 1999 she sat on the Council of the Cheltenham Ladies' College.