Helen Macdonald Simpson (21 November 1890 – 6 November 1960) was a notable New Zealand teacher, university lecturer and writer. She was born in
Wellington
Wellington ( mi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara or ) is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the second-largest city in New Zealand by me ...
, New Zealand, in 1890.
was her younger brother.
Life
She graduated from
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* Canterbury College (Indiana), U.S.
* Canterbury College (Waterford), Queensland, Australia
* Canterbury College (Windsor, Ontario), Canada
* Canterbury College, Kent, England
* Canterbury College, Oxford, England ...
, and from the
University of London
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with a PhD. She taught at
Christchurch Training College. She was the first New Zealand woman to be awarded a doctorate, and also the first New Zealand woman to teach at a New Zealand university.
On 29 January 1927, she married Arthur Barrows Simpson. She wrote ''The women of New Zealand'', a social history survey, which was published in 1940 as part of a government programme to mark 100 years of colonisation of New Zealand.
References
1890 births
1960 deaths
Academic staff of the University of Canterbury
People from Wellington City
Atkinson–Hursthouse–Richmond family
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