Broadway, Worcestershire - Court Farm. Caton Thompson went on to have her memoirs release as an autobiography entitled "Mixed Memoirs" in 1983. She would reside with them and their son, Michael for the rest of her life. She died in 1985, in her 97th year at Broadway, Worcestershire. Honours and accolades In 1938 she was offered the post of Disney Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge but rejected the role which was subsequently accepted by Dorothy Garrod. However, she was a research fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1923 and honorary fellow from 1934 to 1945, receiving an honorary LittD in 1954. She was the first female President of the Prehistoric Society from 1940 to 1946, whilst also being elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1944. Caton Thompson was also elected to the vice presidency of the Royal Anthropological Institute in 1944. She received the Huxley Medal from the Royal Anthropological Institute in 1946. In 1934 Caton Thompson was also the first woman to receive the Rivers Medal from the Royal Anthropological Institute. In 1961 she was a founding member of the British School of History and Archaeology in East Africa and was made an honorary fellow after serving on the council for 10 years. Publications Guy Brunton, G. Caton Thompson, The Badarian civilisation and predynastic remains near Badari, British School of Archaeology in Egypt, London 1928. The Zimbabwe Culture, 1931; F. Cass, 1970 Gertrude Caton Thompson, Elinor Wight Gardner The Desert Fayum, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1934. The Tombs and Moon Temple of Hureidha (Hadhramaut), Oxford for the Society of Antiquaries, 1944 Kharga Oasis in Prehistory, University of London, 1952 Mixed memoirs, Paradigm Press, 1983 Notes and references External links Gertrude Caton Thompson (1888–1985), Archaeologist papers at the Cambridge University Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies "Gertrude Caton Thompson" , Distinguished Women 1997 "Gertrude Caton Thompson: Society Girl, Suffragist and Scientific Archaeologist", TrowelBlazers2013 1888 births 1985 deaths 20th-century archaeologists 20th-century British scientists 20th-century British women scientists British archaeologists Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of Newnham College, Cambridge English archaeologists British women archaeologists