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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* 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, 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
References
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