Jean Wilks (1917-2014)
at telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 31 May 2018. was a headmistress at

The Hertfordshire and Essex High School The Hertfordshire and Essex High School and since 2004 named as ''The Hertfordshire & Essex High School and Science College'', commonly referred as Herts and Essex is a secondary level comprehensive single-sex school and a mixed-sex sixth form ...

and

King Edward VI High School for Girls King Edward VI High School for Girls ''(KEHS)'' () is an independent secondary school in Edgbaston Edgbaston () is an affluent suburban area of central Birmingham, England, historically in Warwickshire, and curved around the southwest o ...

. She studied at

North London Collegiate School North London Collegiate School (NLCS) is an independent school with a day school for girls in England. Founded in Camden Town, it is now located in Edgware, in the London Borough of Harrow. Associate schools are located in South Korea, Jeju I ...

and

Somerville College Somerville College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges. Among its alumnae have been Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Dorothy Hodgkin, ...

, Oxford, where she was later made an honorary fellow.Jean Wilks Obituary at Somerville College
at some.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 31 May 2018. During her career, she served as governor and adviser to the Schools' Council, on the Public Schools Commission, as president of the Association of Headmistresses, and as the first female Pro-Chancellor of

Birmingham University , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

. When she retired in 1977, she was appointed CBE for services to education. Her brother was

Hector Wilks Hector Mark Wilks (1919,Retired Chartered Surveyor Hector Mark Wilks
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2014 deaths Women school principals and headteachers 1917 births Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford Commanders of the Order of the British Empire {{England-academic-bio-stub