Dame Margaret Tuke, Academic/Educator
First Posted On The Herts. Hidden Heroines Project Website: 23rd March 2016
Margaret Tuke (known to her friends as Meta) was a daughter of a Quaker family of Hitchin, born 1862.
She went to Newnham College (with her neighbour and friend, Winnie Seebohm).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Tuke
http://www.hertsmemories.org.uk/page_id__4209.aspx?path=0p366p
As women were not allowed a degree, she is recorded as a graduate of Dublin. She became Principal of Bedford College, London.
From Jennifer Ayto.
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