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ES 's musical career earned her two honorary Doctorates of Music: from the University of Durham in 1911, and from Oxford in 1926 (the first woman so honoured who was not part of the Oxford...

After her death, much of MS 's library was presented to the Ladies' College at Hitchin (now Girton College , Cambridge), and in 1879 Somerville College at Oxford University was named after her.Oxford

MS outstanding intellectual achievements were memorialised in the foundation after her death of Somerville College as an Oxford University women's college. In 2017 she was honoured with an image (in a fetching bonnet) on the...

MS received an Honorary DLitt from Oxford University .

Procter, however, shared her and her father's theological opinions, and lived in the same part of London. An Oxford graduate, he published a sermon in 1625, and owned a house at Upminster in Essex...

During the First World War she travelled the country giving lectures with slides shown on her own magic lantern, organized the knitting of comforters for the troops, and supported the Women's Institute (whose earliest...

GS delivered lectures at Cambridge and Oxford Universities; these were later published by the Hogarth Press .

Edith Sitwell had hosted a tea for GS when she came to lecture at Cambridge and Oxford earlier that year; in attendance were Leonard and Virginia Woolf . They had written on 11 June...

Ray Costelloe (later RS ) became the first woman to attend lectures on electrical engineering at Oxford .

ACS came from a noble family. His maternal grandparents were George, third earl of Ashburnham and his wife (who was born Lady Charlotte Percy ). His paternal grandfather, Sir John Edward Swinburne , owned an...

He turned down an honorary degree from Oxford and a Civil List pension.

ET wrote amusingly of the horror of appearing on a television programme about books, filmed at Birmingham: sitting on spindly chairs under dazzling lights with other participants (Angus Wilson , whom she liked...

Her other brother, already at Oxford , was apparently not a very diligent student.

In a poem written at the age of twenty-one Elizabeth Sophia mentions four little sisters and a little brother, aged from two and a half to eleven and a half. She was evidently closest, emotionally...

By the end of 1910, VT had become romantically involved with Alan Parsons , whom she had met at Brancaster in Norfolk. At the beginning of their courtship, she was still studying music in...