to encourage her to apply for a job there. Archibald's application was successful and she was accredited as an insurance broker on 1 January 1973, making her Lloyd's first female such broker. Of her appointment, she said "I did not break down the barriers; they were broken down for me by the members of Lloyd’s in a very charming way." Being one of the 1970s top women earners in the United Kingdom, In May 1973, Archibald was made chief of the Division for Credit Insurance and Export Credit of the European Commission and directorate-general for External Relations, Commission of the European Communities. She worked to harmonize all the EEC member states different export credit insurance systems from Brussels until 1977 when Lloyd's made her its EEC adviser, with appearances on Question Time on the BBC after the Thatcher government sought to bring about incentives to encourage the sale of British goods and services abroad. Archibald became Lloyd's international affairs advisor in 1981 and left Adam Brothers as a director four years later to become its chairperson from 1991 to 1992. She served on the British Export Finance Advisory Council, the committee on the Review of Banking Services Law and the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct. Between 1984 and 1985, Archibald was part of a government inquiry to look into trading on Sundays, which recommended expanding trading hours on Sundays. In February 1989, she was part of a committee that published a review of the law relating to banking mechanisms and practices, making 83 recommendations to the government related to the bills of exchange for denomination in units of account that were accepted. Personal life From 19 October 1951 to 1965, she was married to the economist George Christopher Archibald, with whom she had no children. Archibald was appointed the OBE. On 1 June 2014, she died of a ruptured aortic aneurysm at her mother's home in Hampstead, London. Personality and legacy Archibald's obituary in The Times noted much comment was made of her love of Porsche's at high speed, wearing a black leather jacket and smoking cigarillo. Rosie Quigley of Post Magazine wrote of her legacy the insurance broker "could be seen as having kick-started a host of new women into Lloyd’s." References 1928 births 2014 deaths People from Marylebone English people of Russian-Jewish descent University of Geneva alumni University of Otago faculty English book editors