List of Mistresses of Girton College, Cambridge
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This is a list of Mistresses of Girton College, Cambridge
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Girton College, Cambridge
Girton College is one of the 31 constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge. It was England's first residential women's college, established in 1869 by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon. The full college status was only received in 1948 and marked the official admittance of women to the...
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- 1869 Charlotte Manning
- 1870 Emily Ann Eliza Shirreff
- 1870–1872 Annie Austin
- 1872–1875 Emily DaviesEmily DaviesSarah Emily Davies was an English feminist, suffragist and a pioneering campaigners fore women's rights to university access. She was born in Southampton, England to an evangelical clergyman and a teacher in 1830, although she spent most of her youth in Gateshead...
- 1875–1884 Marianne Bernard
- 1885–1903 Elizabeth Welsh
- 1903–1916 Emily Elizabeth Constance JonesEmily Elizabeth Constance JonesEmily Elizabeth Constance Jones was an English educator and writer on logic and ethics, and Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge, from 1903 until 1916....
- 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 CartwrightMary CartwrightDame Mary Lucy Cartwright DBE FRS was a leading 20th-century British mathematician. She was born in Aynho, Northamptonshire where her father was the vicar and died in Cambridge, England...
- 1968–1976 Muriel Clara Bradbrook
- 1976–1983 Brenda Ryman
- 1984–1991 Mary Warnock
- 1992–1998 Juliet J. D'Auvergne Campbell
- 1998–2009 Marilyn StrathernMarilyn StrathernDame Ann Marilyn Strathern, DBE, FBA is a British anthropologist who was Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge from 1998 until her retirement in 2009...
- 2009– Susan J. SmithSusan J. SmithSusan Jane Smith is Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge. Smith previously held the Ogilvie Chair of Geography at the University of Edinburgh from 1990–2004 and until 2009 was a professor of geography at Durham University, where she played a key role in establishing the Institute of Advanced Study...