Biographies
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Henrietta Octavia Barnett née Rowland (1851- 1936) social reformer. Her career began as one of the voluntary workers for housing pioneer Octavia Hill in Marylebone. She married Samuel Barnett and they jointly founding the University Settlement, Toynbee Hall in Whitechapel, London.
Louisa Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford, Lady Waterford (nee Louisa Anne Stewart) (1818-1891), great-granddaughter of the writer, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, a gifted water colour painter, 75 of her portraits are held by the National Portrait Gallery.
Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts (1814-1906) philanthropist, of the Coutts banking family, inheriting her first £1.8m in 1837, spent her life and fortune on improving the lives of the working class in Britain, Ireland and abroad, becoming known as the 'Queen of the Poor'.
Frances Buss began her career in education as a teacher in her mother's school before gaining qualifications at Queen's College.
Charles, Bessie
Bessie Charles (1869-1932) see Lynne Walker's Golden Age or False Dawn?: Women Architects of the 20th century pdf
Charles, Ethel
Ethel Charles (1871-1962) see Lynne Walker's Golden Age or False Dawn?: Women Architects of the 20th century pdf
Denby, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Denby (1894-1965) see Lynne Walker's Golden Age or False Dawn?: Women Architects of the 20th century pdf
Drew, Jane
Jane Drew (1911-1996) see Lynne Walker's Golden Age or False Dawn?: Women Architects of the 20th century pdf
Mary Higgs, née Kingsland (1854-1937), attended the Hitchin College for Women and Girton College, Cambridge.
Octavia Hill (1838-1912) housing and education pioneer, trained with John Ruskin, and founded the National Trust.
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Ledeboer, Judith
Judith Ledeboer (1901-1990) see Lynne Walker's, Golden Age or False Dawn?: Women Architects of the 20th century pdf
Barbara Leigh Smith (later Bodichon) (1827-1891) divided her life as a painter in Morocco and pioneering women's rights' activist in London.
Gertrude Leverkus (1899-1976): took a B.A. in Architecture at University College London, 1916-1919, the only woman taking her finals with 500 men.
Macarthur, Mary
Mary Macarthur (1880-1921) see
www.bclm.co.uk/downloads/witr_marymacarthur.pdf (Archived)
www.londonmet.ac.uk/library/u23465_3.pdf (Archived)
www.londonmet.ac.uk/library/g94532_3.pdf (Archived)
www.bclm.co.uk/downloads/a4_workers_institute_cradley_heath.pdf (Archived)
McClelland, Elspeth
Elspeth McClelland - see www.gardencitycollection.com/object-lbm2204
Scott, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Scott (1898-1972) see Lynne Walker's Golden Age or False Dawn?: Women Architects of the 20th century pdf
Smithson, Alison
Alison Smithson (1928-1993) see Lynne Walker's Golden Age or False Dawn?: Women Architects of the 20th century pdf
Ray Strachey, Rachel Conn Costelloe, Mrs Oliver Strachey (1887-1940), women's rights' campaigner and writer, with a mathematics degree from Newnham College, Cambridge 1905-1908, she studied engineering at Oxford University, 1910.
Laura Ann Willson, Mrs (c.1878-1942) started work at ten years old as a 'half-timer' in a Yorkshire textile factory. She went on to become a founder member of the Women's Engineering Society.
