Marian Gertrude Beard, known to friends as 'Barbula' Beard (1885-1958) was an Irish-born educator and translator, headmistress of Putney High School and Crofton Grange School.

Life

Beard was educated at Alexandra College, gaining a first class honours degree in modern languages in 1907. She continued to

Somerville College, Oxford 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, Ir ...

, gaining another first-class honours degree in German. After teaching at

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for a year, she became lecturer in modern languages at Girton College, Cambridge.'Miss M. G. Beard', ''

The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (fou ...

'', 23 October 1958, p.17.

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recalled her there as "a tall elegant Irish woman with a slight stoop and a lorgnette and a very agreeable brogue". After Girton she lectured in modern languages at Somerville College. From 1918 to 1920 she worked as an Administrative Assistant in the Livestock Branch of the Ministry of Food, for which she was appointed an OBE in 1920. Beard was headmistress of Putney High School from 1920 to 1930. At weekends she lived with her Girton friend Eileen Power, in a half-house at 20 Mecklenburgh Square. In 1930 she moved to be headmistress of Crofton Grange School, staying there until her retirement. She died on 15 October 1958. Papers relating to her are held by the UCL Institute of Education.From File 'Miss Marian Gertrude Beard'
Accessed 14 January 2020.

Works

* (tr.) ''Emotion and insanity'' by

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. London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1926.

The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method was an influential series of monographs published from 1922 to 1965 under the general editorship of Charles Kay Ogden by Kegan Paul, Trench Trubner & Co. in London. This ser ...

. * (tr. with

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) ''Economic and social foundations of European civilization'' by

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. London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co., Ltd., 1937.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Beard, Marion Gertrude 1885 births 1958 deaths Schoolteachers from Dublin (city) Heads of schools in England Women school principals and headteachers Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford