Dame Margaret Tuke, Academic/Educator

First Posted On The Herts. Hidden Heroines Project Website: 23rd March 2016

Dame Margaret Janson Tuke (1862–1947)
Francis Dodd (1874–1949) Royal Holloway, University of London

Hitchin

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.

This page was added on 02/12/2016.

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