Fawcett, Philippa Garrett, 1868-1948

Philippa Garrett Fawcett 4 April 1868 – 10 June 1948; daughter of suffragist Millicent Fawcett and Henry Fawcett MP, Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge and Postmaster General in Gladstone's government, aunt Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first English female doctor; lived with aunt Agnes Garrett; educated at Bedford College, London (now Royal Holloway) and Newnham College, Cambridge; became the first woman to obtain the top score in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos exams; won the Marion Kennedy scholarship at Cambridge; appointed a college lecturer in Mathematics at Newnham College, a position she held for 10 years; appointed as a lecturer to train mathematics teachers at the Normal School in Johannesburg, South Africa, now part of the University of Pretoria; 1905, when she returned to Britain to take a position in the administration of education for London County Council. At the LCC, in her work developing secondary schools, she attained a high rank. Denied a Cambridge degree by her sex, she was one of the steamboat ladies who travelled to Ireland between 1904 and 1907 to receive an ad eundem University of Dublin degree at Trinity College