Marianne Bernard (12 February 1839, in

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– 9 April 1926, in Bristol) was Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge from 1875 until 1884. Bernard was educated at the Home and Colonial Training College. from 1910 until 1925. Her appointment as Mistress was not unanimously welcomed within Girton, as some felt her social position had swayed the decision: her maternal uncle was the

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from 1864 to 1869. She left in 1884 to marry

Peter Wallwork Latham Peter Wallwork Latham (1832–1923) was an English physician and professor of medicine at the University of Cambridge. Biography Peter Latham served as an apprentice to this father, who was a physician, and then studied at the University of Gla ...

, Downing professor of medicine at Cambridge, going on to hold a position on the college executive committee until 1924. During her tenure she guided the college through ongoing construction of the college facilities and an outbreak of smallpox in 1878. https://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/events/mistress-1869-1924

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1839 births 1926 deaths Alumni of the Home and Colonial Training College Mistresses of Girton College, Cambridge Academics from Bristol 19th-century English women educators 19th-century English educators {{UCambridge-stub