Max Mallowan honours in their own right. He died on 19 August 1978, aged 74, in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, and was interred alongside his first wife, Dame Agatha, in the churchyard of St Mary's, Cholsey. His widow Barbara, the second Lady Mallowan, died in Wallingford in 1993, aged 85. Max Mallowan Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan, CBE (6 May 1904 – 19 August 1978) was a prominent British archaeologist, specialising in ancient Middle Eastern history. He was the second husband of Dame Agatha Christie. Born Edgar Mallowan in Wandsworth on 6 May 1904, he was the son of Frederick Mallowan and his wife
Valerie Grove David Byrnmor Jenkins in 1968, but the couple later divorced. (Her first book "Where I Was Young - Memories of London Childhoods" was published in 1976, under her former name.) She married Trevor Grove in 1975. Her second husband is a former editor of "The Sunday Telegraph". Valerie Grove Valerie Grove (née Smith, born 11 May 1946 in South Shields) is a British journalist and author, who for many years worked as a feature writer, interviewer and columnist for "The Times" newspaper. Her father, William Douglas "Doug" Smith (1916–73), was a cartoonist for the "Shields Gazette" and other newspapers. After