# Max Hebditch

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'''Maxwell Graham Hebditch''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|CBE|FSA|}} (born 22 August 1937) was [Director](/source/Museum_director) of the [Museum of London](/source/Museum_of_London) in London, England.<ref>Max Hebditch, [https://archive.today/20130106043509/http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122348670/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 Museums about cities]. ''[Museum International](/source/Museum_International)'', Volume 47, Issue 3, pages 7–11, April 2009. {{doi|10.1111/j.1468-0033.1995.tb01248.x }}</ref>

He was born on 22 August 1937<ref>{{cite news|title=Birthdays today: Honor Blackman, 90|url=http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/life/courtsocial/article4534428.ece|access-date=22 August 2015|work=[The Times](/source/The_Times)|date=22 August 2015}}{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> in the Yeovil area, the son of Harold and Lily (née Bartle) Hebditch.

He was appointed the first Field Archaeologist of Leicester Museum service from 1961 to 1965, when he was made Assistant Curator of Archaeology at Bristol Museum, becoming their Curator of Agriculture and Social History in 1969.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-457-1/dissemination/pdf/vol01/vol01_11/01_11_258.pdf| title = New Director at Guildhall Museum|accessdate = 2012-05-18}}</ref> In 1970 he moved to London to become Director of the [Guildhall Museum](/source/London_Guildhall) and from 1977 to 1997 was director of the new Museum of London. He was also president of the UK [Museums Association](/source/Museums_Association); and from 1977 to 1979 president of the [London and Middlesex Archaeological Society](/source/London_and_Middlesex_Archaeological_Society).

In 2000, after retiring from the Museum of London, he became honorary curator at the [Philpot Museum](/source/Philpot_Museum) in [Lyme Regis](/source/Lyme_Regis), [Dorset](/source/Dorset) and was Chair of the Taunton Cultural Consortium. He now lives in [Dorchester](/source/Dorchester%2C_Dorset).

==Selected works==
* 1958 ''Towards the future of London's past''.
* 1968 ''Excavations on the medieval defences, Portwall Lane, Bristol, 1965''
* 1973 ''The Forum and Basilica of Roman Leicester''

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