Sarah Woodhead
Sarah Woodhead (1851-1912) was the first woman to sit and pass a Tripos examination at Cambridge University. She studied at Girton College, Cambridge.
Woodhead's father was a Manchester grocer. She belonged to the Society of Friends and was educated in Quaker schools.[1]
In 1873 she took the same Tripos examination as the male students and was classed as the equivalent to Senior Optime in Mathematics. She was one of the first three women to complete the course as students at Girton College;[2] they were known as "Woodhead, Cook and Lumsden the Girton Pioneers."[3]
She was later, as Sarah Corbett, to be the second headmistress of Bolton School, known then as Bolton High School for Girls.[1]
See also
- Philippa Fawcett, the first woman to obtain the top score on the Tripos
References
- 1 2 Stephen, Barbara (1932), Girton College 1869–1932, Cambridge University Press, p. 194.
- ↑ Tuker, Mildred Anna Rosalie; Matthison, William (1907), Cambridge, A. and C. Black, p. 321.
- ↑ Megson, Barbara; Lindsay, Jean Olivia (1961), Girton College, 1869–1959: an informal history, W. Heffer for the Girton Historical and Political Society, p. 19.
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