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List Of Mistresses Of Girton College, Cambridge
This is a list of Mistresses of Girton College, Cambridge. * 1869 Charlotte Manning * 1870 Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff * 1870–1872 Annie Austin * 1872–1875 Emily Davies * 1875–1884 Marianne Bernard * 1885–1903 Elizabeth Welsh * 1903–1916 Emily Elizabeth Constance Jones * 1916–1922 Katharine Jex-Blake * 1922–1925 Bertha Surtees Phillpotts * 1925–1931 Edith Helen Major * 1931–1942 Helen Marion Wodehouse * 1942–1949 Kathleen Teresa Blake Butler * 1949–1968 Mary Cartwright * 1968–1976 Muriel Clara Bradbrook * 1976–1983 Brenda Ryman * 1984–1991 Mary Warnock * 1992–1998 Juliet Campbell * 1998–2009 Marilyn Strathern Dame Ann Marilyn Strathern, Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, DBE, Fellow of the British Academy, FBA (née Evans; born 6 March 1941) is a Great Britain, British anthropology, anthropologist, who has worked lar ... * 2009–2022 Susan J. Smith * 2022 to date Elisabeth Kendall References Past ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mistress (college)
A head of college or head of house is the head or senior member of a college within a collegiate university. The title used varies between colleges, including dean, master, president, principal, provost, rector and warden. The role of the head of college varies significantly between colleges of the same university, and even more so between different universities. However, the head of college will often have responsibility for leading the governing body of the college, often acting as a chair of various college committees; for executing the decisions of the governing body through the college's organisational structure, acting as a chief executive; and for representing the college externally, both within the government of the university and further afield often in aid of fund-raising for the college. The nature of the role varies in importance depending on the nature of the central university. At a loosely federated university such as the University of London or the National Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Wodehouse
Helen Marion Wodehouse (12 October 1880 – 20 October 1964) was a British philosopher and Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge. She was also the first woman to hold a professorial chair at the University of Bristol. Life and education Helen Wodehouse was born on 12 October 1880 in Bratton Fleming, North Devon. She was one of four children of the Reverend Philip John Wodehouse (brother of P. G. Wodehouse’s father, Henry Ernest Wodehouse), and his wife, Marion Bryan Wallas, meaning Helen and P.G. were cousins. She was educated at Notting Hill High School in London, where her aunt Katharine Wallas was teaching mathematics and in 1898 she won an exhibition to Girton College, Cambridge to read mathematics. She stayed on to take Part II of the Moral Sciences Tripos and obtained a first class degree in 1902. This was followed by another year in Cambridge, as Gilchrist fellow, before going to Birmingham to read for a teacher's higher diploma. She took an MA and a DPhil (1906), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Kendall
Elisabeth Kendall is a British Arabist, academic and commentator, and Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge, whose scholarship has ranged from Middle Eastern literatures to militant jihad. She is best known for her work on how Islamist extremists exploit Arabic cultures and traditions. Biography She attended Beaconsfield High School before reading Oriental Studies at the Pembroke College, University of Oxford where she gained a first-class degree and was awarded the Schacht Memorial Prize. She secured her first lectureship at Pembroke College, Oxford. She was awarded a Kennedy Scholarship to pursue her doctoral research at Harvard University. From 2000 to 2010, she held positions at St Antony's College, Oxford then the University of Edinburgh, where she was appointed Director of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World ( CASAW). From 2010 to 2022, she was Senior Research Fellow in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Pembroke College, University of Oxford. She spends signif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan J
Susan is a feminine given name, the usual English version of Susanna or Susannah. All are versions of the Hebrew name Shoshana, which is derived from the Hebrew ''shoshan'', meaning ''lotus flower'' in Egyptian, original derivation, and several other languages. Variations * Susana, Susanna (or Suzanna), Susannah, Suzana, Suzannah * Susann, Sussan, Suzan, Suzann * Susanne, Suzanne * Susanne * Suzan * Suzanne * Suzette * Susie, Suzy Nicknames Common nicknames for Susan include: * Sue, Susie, Susi (German), Suzi, Suzy, Suzie, Suze, Sanna, Suzie, Sookie, Sukie Sukie are an English four piece indie band from Kettering, Northamptonshire, England, who formed in March 2006. They had a number one on the UK Indie Chart in 2008 with the double a-side "Pink-A-Pade" / "Fairies". Following the split of the band, ..., Sukey, Subo, Suus (Dutch), Shanti In other languages * Albanian and * * , or * * , or * * , or * Catalan, Estonian and * ** * Czech and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marilyn Strathern
Dame Ann Marilyn Strathern, Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, DBE, Fellow of the British Academy, FBA (née Evans; born 6 March 1941) is a Great Britain, British anthropology, anthropologist, who has worked largely with the Mount Hagen people of Papua New Guinea and dealt with issues in the United Kingdom, UK of reproductive technologies.Video Recording of Marilyn Strathern by Alan Macfarlane 6 May 2009. She was William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge from 1993 to 2008, and Master (college), Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge from 1998 to 2009. Early life Marilyn Strathern was born to Eric Evans and Joyce Evans in North Wales on 6 March 1941.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juliet Campbell (British Diplomat)
Juliet Jeanne d'Auvergne Campbell CMG (born 23 May 1935) is a retired British diplomat and academic administrator. Through most of her career she was known as Juliet Collings. Early life Born in London, Campbell is the daughter of Major-General Wilfred d'Auvergne Collings (1893—1984) and his wife Harriet Nancy Draper Bishop,“CAMPBELL, Juliet Jeanne d'Auvergne , C.M.G., M.A.; British university college head and fmr. diplomatist” in ''The International Who's Who: 1996–97'' (Gale Group, 1996), p. 253 of Saint Peter Port, Guernsey, and was educated at the University of Oxford. Career In 1957, after Oxford, Campbell joined the Foreign Office. From 1961 to 1963 she was posted to the Common Market Delegation in Brussels, then returned to the Foreign Office for a year, before serving as a Second and later First Secretary at Bangkok until 1966. She was in the FO News Department, 1967–1970, then was Head of Chancery in the Hague, 1970–1974. After three years in the FO’s Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Warnock
Helen Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, (née Wilson; 14 April 1924 – 20 March 2019) was an English philosopher of ethics, morality, philosophy of education, education, and philosophy of mind, mind, and a writer on existentialism. She is best known for chairing an inquiry whose report formed the basis of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990. She served as Head of college, Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge from 1984 to 1991. Early life and education Warnock was born Helen Mary Wilson on 14 April 1924 in Winchester, England, and was the youngest of seven children. Her mother Ethel was the daughter of the successful banker and financier Felix Schuster. Her father Archibald Edward Wilson (1875–1923) was a housemaster and German teacher at Winchester College who died from diphtheria seven months before her birth. Her mother did not marry again. Warnock was brought up by her mother and a nanny. She never knew her eldest brother, Malcolm (1907–1969), who had autism ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brenda Ryman
Brenda Edith Ryman (married name Barkley, 6 December 1922 – 20 November 1983) was a biochemist and Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge. Ryman was on the staff of the Royal Free Hospital from 1948 to 1972, Professor of Biochemistry at Charing Cross Hospital from 1972, and Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge from 1976 until her death. She was awarded a posthumous DSc by Cambridge University. Life Brenda Edith Ryman was born on 6 December 1922. Ryman was educated at Colston's Girls' School in Bristol and then attended Girton College, Cambridge, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts and then in 1943 a Master of Arts. Ryman was awarded the Gamble Prize by the College. She completed a doctoral degree in biochemistry at the University of Birmingham in 1948. Ryman married Dr Harry Barkley in 1948. Ryman was a biochemist, and was on the staff of the Royal Free Hospital from 1948 to 1972, first as a senior lecturer and then from 1970 as a Reader. From 1972 she was appointed as Profes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muriel Clara Bradbrook
Muriel Clara Bradbrook (1909–1993), usually cited as M. C. Bradbrook, was a British literary scholar and authority on Shakespeare. She was Professor of English at Cambridge University, and Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge. Biography Born on 27 April 1909, Bradbrook was the eldest child of Annie Wilson (née Harvey) and her husband Samuel Bradbrook, superintendent of HM Waterguard. She was educated at Hutcheson’s Girls’ School, Glasgow, and Oldershaw High School, Wallasey. Between 1927 and 1930 she studied English at Girton College, Cambridge, graduating with first-class honours in both parts of the Cambridge Tripos. She remained at Girton College as a Carlisle Scholar and subsequently as an Ottilie Hancock Research Fellow between 1930 and 1935, obtaining her PhD in 1933. She spent a year at Oxford before returning to Girton College as Lecturer in English and Fellow in 1936. She remained in Cambridge apart from a period working in London for the Board of Trade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Cartwright
Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright (17 December 1900 – 3 April 1998) was a British mathematician. She was one of the pioneers of what would later become known as chaos theory. Along with J. E. Littlewood, Cartwright saw many solutions to a problem which would later be seen as an example of the butterfly effect. Early life and education Mary Cartwright was born on 17 December 1900, in Aynho, Northamptonshire, where her father William Digby was vicar. Through her grandmother Jane Holbech, she descended from poet John Donne and William Mompesson, Vicar of Eyam. She had four siblings, two older and two younger: John (born 1896), Nigel (born 1898), Jane (born 1905), and William (born 1907). Her early education was at Leamington High School (1912–1915), and then at Gravely Manor School in Boscombe (1915–1916) before completion in Godolphin School in Salisbury (1916–1919). Cartwright studied mathematics at St Hugh's College, Oxford, graduating in 1923 with a first class deg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen Teresa Blake Butler
Kathleen Teresa Blake Butler (born Bardsea, 26 September 1883 – died Cambridge, 2 May 1950) was an academic specialising in Modern Languages. Butler was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. She was on the staff of the Royal Holloway College from 1913 to 1915 when she returned to Cambridge as a Fellow of Girton. She was a Lecturer in Modern Languages from 1915 to 1942; Director of Studies in Modern Languages from 1917 to 1938; University Lecturer in Italian from 1926 to 1949; Vice-Mistress of Girton from 1936 to 38; and Mistress of Girton from 1942 to 1949. Her publications included "A History of French Literature" (1923); "Les Premières Lettres de Guez de Balzac" (1934); and "Tredici novelle modern" (1946).British Library web site accessed 08:38 GMT Saturday 16 February 2019 Her sister, Eliza Marian Butler, was an academic specialising in the German language German (, ) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western Eu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Helen Major
Edith Helen Major, CBE (15 February 1867 – 17 March 1951) was an Irish educationalist. She was Mistress of Girton College Cambridge from 1925 to 1931. Early life and education Major was born in Lisburn. Her uncle was Sir Robert McCall, a noted Irish barrister. She was educated at Methodist College Belfast and Girton College, Cambridge. She was one of the "steamboat ladies" who received a degree from Trinity College Dublin, because Cambridge was not yet granting women degrees, at the time. Career Major was a member of the faculty at Blackheath High School from 1888 to 1900, and assistant mistress serving under Florence Gadesden. She was Headmistress of Putney High School from 1900 to 1910; and Head Mistress of King Edward VI High School for Girls from 1910 until 1925. After World War I she worked with Belgian refugees. Major succeeded Bertha Phillpotts as Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge, serving from 1925 until 1931. She was succeeded at Girton by Helen M. Wodehous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |