Ella Mary Edghill (born 13 November 1881 at

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; died 24 January 1964 at St Mary's Hospital, Bristol) was a British translator known primarily for her translation of ''

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'' which appeared in Volume 1 (1928) of '' The Works of Aristotle'' series, edited by

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and J. A. Smith and for her translation of

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by Aristotle. She was the daughter of Rev.

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, DD,

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, and Mary Nesfield. She was educated at Bedford High School and Newnham College, Cambridge, where she took the

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. She then achieved an MA and education diploma at

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. Following training at

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she became the senior classics mistress at Bedford High School. In November 1913 she was appointed headmistress of the King's High School for girls in Warwick. Towards the end of 1920 she was appointed headmistress of

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, although she remained at Warwick till the summer of 1921 to see out the school year. The

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edition of 1928 describes Edghill as "E. M. Edghill M.A.; ex-associate of

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". A Miss "Ella Mary Edghill" was the

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between 1926 and 1938. In 1939 she was a teacher at Eastman's School in Burnham-on-Sea, where her brother, Victor John Collinson Edghill, was the principal.

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