SCHOFIELD, Sylvia Anne (née Terry-Smith, then Matheson). London 20.5.1916 — Javea, Spain 2.3.2006. British Archaeologist. Daughter of William Horace Smith, an architect and chartered surveyor, and Annie Terry, a Salvation Army officer, educated at Wimbledon Technical College. A free journalist from the age of 16, during WWII in BBC. She was interested in archaeology and carried out numerous local surveys and surface collections in Baluchistan, where he stayed in the 1950s with her husband Henry Schofield, an engineer, who conducted work on the Sui gas field. In 1947 she had collaborated with Wheeler at Charsada, then with Casal in Mundigak. In 1965-79 living with her husband in Teheran, in 1981 they retired in Javea. First husband 1941 Angus Matheson (1912–1962, divorce 1950), Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures at Glasgow, then 1956 Henry Beaumont Schofield (1916–1990), a petroleum engineer.
Even after divorce she published all her books as S. A. Matheson. The collections (Matheson Collection) landed in London Institute of Archaeology, where they were studied by Ihsan Ali for his M.A. report in 1990.
Publications: The Tigers of Baluchistan. 1967.
– Time Off to Dig: Mundigak – An Afghan Adventure. L. 1961.
– Persia, An Archaeological Guide. L. 1972.
– Leathercraft in the Lands of Ancient Persia. 1978.
– Rajasthan: Land of Kings. 200 p. L. 1984.
– Wrote four crime stories with nom-de-plume Max Mundy.
Sources: G.M. Chandler in SAA 1993, Helsinki 1994, 147f.; *Y. Crowe, Encyclop. Iranica 2009 (online); Oxford D.N.B.; Wikipedia.