Helen Wodehouse
Wodehouse, Helen Marion , philosopher and college head
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Helen Marion Wodehouse was a British philosopher and Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge. She was also the first woman to hold a professorial chair at the University of Bristol. Life and education Helen Wodehouse was born on 12 October 1880 in Bratton Fleming, North Devon. She was one of four children of the Reverend Philip John Wodehouse , and his wife, Marion Bryan Wallas, meaning Helen and P.G. were cousins. She was educated at Notting Hill High School in London, where her aunt Katharine Wallas was teaching mathematics and in 1898 she won an exhibition to Girton College, Cambridge to read mathematics. She stayed on to take Part II of the Moral Sciences Tripos and obtained a first class degree in 1902. This was followed by another year in Cambridge, as Gilchrist fellow, before going to Birmingham to read for a teacher's higher diploma. She took an MA and a DPhil , and held the post of lecturer in philosophy from 1903 until 1911.
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