Venetia Savile

In the novel They Came to Baghdad, Venetia Savile is a Cambridge anthropologist who is coming out to join the archaeological dig of Dr Pauncefoot Jones at Tell Aswad. This is fortunate for Victoria Jones. When she arrives at the dig, the similarity of their first names causes the forgetful Pauncefoot Jones to assume that she must be the expected anthropologist and he accords her a welcome better than she would otherwise have received.