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This is a list of
Mistresses
Mistress is the feminine form of the English word "master" (''master'' + ''-ess'') and may refer to:
Romance and relationships
* Mistress (lover), a term for a woman who is in a sexual and romantic relationship with a man who is married to a d ...
of
Girton College, Cambridge
Girton College is one of the 31 constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge. The college was established in 1869 by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon as the first women's college in Cambridge. In 1948, it was granted full college status ...
.
* 1869
Charlotte Manning
Charlotte Manning ('' née'' Solly; 30 March 1803 – 1 April 1871) was a British feminist, scholar and writer. She was the first head of Girton College.
Family
Charlotte Solly was born in 1803, daughter of merchant Isaac Solly of Leyton, Es ...
* 1870
Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff
Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff (3 November 1814 – 20 March 1897) was a pioneer in the movement for the higher education of women and the development of the Froebelian principles in England.
Biography
Family
She was born on 3 November 1814, the se ...
* 1870–1872
Annie Austin
Annie Crowe Austin was Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge from October 1870 until illness forced her to relinquish her duties in May 1872. when Emily Davies
Sarah Emily Davies (22 April 1830 – 13 July 1921) was an English feminist and ...
* 1872–1875
Emily Davies
Sarah Emily Davies (22 April 1830 – 13 July 1921) was an English feminist and suffragist, and a pioneering campaigner for women's rights to university access. She is remembered above all as a co-founder and an early Mistress of Girton Colleg ...
* 1875–1884
Marianne Bernard
Marianne Bernard (12 February 1839, in Bristol – 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 ...
* 1885–1903
Elizabeth Welsh
Elizabeth Welsh (3 March 1843 – 13 February 1921) was a classicist and the second longest running Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge.
Life and career
Elizabeth Welsh was born in 1843 in County Down, Ireland to John Welsh and his wife Elizabet ...
* 1903–1916
Emily Elizabeth Constance Jones
Emily Elizabeth Constance Jones (19 February 1848 – 9 April 1922) known as Constance Jones or E.E. Constance Jones, was an English philosopher and educator. She worked in logic and ethics.
Life and career
Emily Elizabeth Constance Jones was bo ...
* 1916–1922
Katharine Jex-Blake
Katharine Jex-Blake (18 November 1860 – 26 March 1951), was an English classical scholar, and the eighth Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge.
Biography Early life
Katharine Jex-Blake was born in 1860 at Rugby School, one of nine daughters and ...
Edith Helen Major
Edith Helen Major, CBE (15 February 1867 – 17 March 1951) was an Irish educationalist.
Major was born in Lisburn and educated at Methodist College Belfast and Girton College, Cambridge. She was Assistant Mistress at Blackheath High School fro ...
Kathleen Teresa Blake Butler
Kathleen Teresa Blake Butler (born Bardsea, 26 September 1883 – died Cambridge, 2 May 1950) was an academic specialising in Modern Languages.
Butler was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. She was on the staff of the Royal Holloway Colle ...
* 1949–1968
Mary Cartwright
Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright, (17 December 1900 – 3 April 1998) was a British mathematician. She was one of the pioneers of what would later become known as chaos theory. Along with J. E. Littlewood, Cartwright saw many solutions to a problem ...
* 1968–1976
Muriel Clara Bradbrook
Muriel Clara Bradbrook (1909–1993), usually cited as M. C. Bradbrook, was a British literary scholar and authority on Shakespeare. She was Professor of English at Cambridge University, and Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge.
Biography ...
* 1976–1983
Brenda Ryman
Brenda Edith Ryman (6 December 1922 – 20 November 1983) was a biochemist and Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge.
Ryman was educated at Colston's Girls' School and Girton College, Cambridge. She was on the staff of the Royal Free Hospital f ...
* 1984–1991
Mary Warnock
Helen Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, (née Wilson; 14 April 1924 – 20 March 2019) was an English philosopher of morality, education, and mind, and a writer on existentialism. She is best known for chairing an inquiry whose report formed the ...
Marilyn Strathern
Dame Ann Marilyn Strathern, Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, DBE, Fellow of the British Academy, FBA (née Evans; born 6 March 1941) is a Great Britain, British anthropology, anthropologist, who has worked lar ...
* 2009–2022
Susan J. Smith
Susan Jane Smith (born 1956) is a British geographer and academic. Since 2009, she has been mistress of Girton College, Cambridge. Smith previously held the Ogilvie Chair of Geography at the University of Edinburgh from 1990 to 2004 and until ...
* 2022 to date
Elisabeth Kendall
Elisabeth Kendall is a British Arabist, academic and commentator whose scholarship has ranged from Middle Eastern literatures to militant jihad. She is best known for her work on how Islamist extremists exploit Arabic cultures and traditions.
B ...