This is a list of Mistresses of

Girton College, Cambridge Girton College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was established in 1869 by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon as the first women's college at Cambridge. In 1948, it was granted full college status by the un ...

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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, Ess ...

* 1870 Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff * 1870–1872 Annie Austin * 1872–1875

Emily Davies Sarah Emily Davies (22 April 1830 – 13 July 1921) was an English feminist who founded Girton College, Cambridge. She campaigned as a suffragist and for women's rights to university education. In her early life, she attended meetings of the ...

* 1875–1884 Marianne Bernard * 1885–1903 Elizabeth Welsh * 1903–1916 Emily Elizabeth Constance Jones * 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 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 prob ...

* 1968–1976 Muriel Clara Bradbrook * 1976–1983 Brenda Ryman * 1984–1991

Mary Warnock Helen Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, (née Wilson; 14 April 1924 – 20 March 2019) was an English philosopher of ethics, morality, philosophy of education, education, and philosophy of mind, mind, and a writer on existentialism. She is best ...

* 1992–1998 Juliet Campbell * 1998–2009

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 * 2022 to date Elisabeth Kendall

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