Elizabeth Welsh
Elizabeth Welsh (3 March 1843 – 13 February 1921) was a classicist and the second longest running[1] Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge.[2]
Life and career
Elizabeth Welsh was born in 1843 in County Down, Ireland, to John Welsh and his wife Elizabeth Dalzell.[3] She was the eldest of their four daughters. Welsh was educated first at home, then at various private schools and by the vicar of her parish, who taught her Latin and Greek. In 1872, she went up to Girton College, Cambridge, to study Classics. After completing the Tripos in 1875, she taught at Manchester High School before returning to Girton in 1876 as a tutor in classics.[4]
Welsh became vice-mistress of Girton in 1880 after the Mistress, Marianne Bernard, devolved some of her responsibilities.[5] She succeeded her as Mistress of Girton in 1885, the first person who had studied at Girton to be Mistress.[6] Shortly after her appointment, she was made a member of Girton and elected to the executive committee, becoming the first Mistress to have a say in the government of the college. She held this post until her retirement in 1903. She died in Edinburgh on 13 February 1921, and was buried in Girton Churchyard.
References
- ^ "Elizabeth Welsh (1843–1921)".
- ^ Girton College Register, 1869–1946: Cambridge; CUP; 1948
- ^ Megson, Barbara (2004). "Welsh, Elizabeth (1843–1921)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/48616. Retrieved 1 August 2017. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Welsh, Elizabeth". Who Was Who. A & C Black. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
- ^ Megson, Barbara; Lindsay, J. (1961). Girton College 1869-1959. An Informal History. Cambridge.
- ^ "Elizabeth Welsh (1843–1921)".
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Preceded by Marianne Bernard | Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge 1885–1903 | Succeeded by Constance Jones |
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- 1869 Charlotte Manning
- 1870 Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff
- 1870–1872 Annie Austin
- 1872–1875 Emily Davies
- 1875–1884 Marianne Bernard
- 1885–1903 Elizabeth Welsh
- 1903–1916 Emily Elizabeth Constance Jones
- 1916–1922 Katharine Jex-Blake
- 1922–1925 Bertha Surtees Phillpotts
- 1925–1931 Edith Helen Major
- 1931–1942 Helen Marion Wodehouse
- 1942–1949 Kathleen Teresa Blake Butler
- 1949–1968 Mary Cartwright
- 1968–1976 Muriel Clara Bradbrook
- 1976–1983 Brenda Ryman
- 1984–1991 Mary Warnock
- 1992–1998 Juliet Campbell
- 1998–2009 Marilyn Strathern
- 2009–present Susan J. Smith