Philippa Garrett Fawcett (4 April 1868 – 10 June 1948) was an English mathematician and educator. She was the first woman to obtain the top score in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos exams. She taught at Newnham College, Cambridge, and at the normal school (teacher training college) in Johannesburg, and she became an administrator for the London County Council.
Philippa Garrett Fawcett (4 April 1868 – 10 June 1948) was an English mathematician and educator. She was the first woman to obtain the top score in the...
women. Their only child was PhilippaFawcett, born in 1868, who was much encouraged by her mother in her studies. In 1890 Philippa became the first woman to...
television presenter Philippa Cullen (1950–1975), Australian performance artist Philippa Dunne, Irish actress and writer PhilippaFawcett (1868–1948), English...
extremely rare. In 1867, Fawcett married Elizabeth's younger sister Millicent Garrett. They had one child, PhilippaFawcett. Henry Fawcett's career was cut short...
first without becoming known as Senior Wrangler. One was the student PhilippaFawcett in 1890. At that time, although the university allowed women to take...
special certificate instead of the BA degree with honours. In 1890, PhilippaFawcett became the first woman to obtain the top score in the Mathematical...
classical theory of electromagnetic radiation. In 1890, mathematician PhilippaFawcett, a University of Cambridge student, registered the highest score in...
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the mental faculty to master mathematics. Thus it was big news when PhilippaFawcett was ranked "above the Senior Wranger" in 1890, scoring thirteen percent...
studies in sunspots and other solar phenomena. 1890: Mathematician PhilippaFawcett became the first woman to obtain the highest score in the Cambridge...
Chester Beatty, in September 1970 he began a 3-year course at the PhilippaFawcett Teacher Training College (PFTTC) in Streatham; his attendance was poor...
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Millicent Garrett Fawcett GBE (1847-1929): leader of the suffragette movement and writer (wife of Henry Fawcett MP). Philippa Garrett Fawcett (1868-1948):...
Philippa Strachey, CBE (19 April 1872 – 23 August 1968) was a British suffragist. She organised major suffrage demonstrations and went on to lead the Fawcett...
fifty-seven. Biography portal Education portal Mathematics portal PhilippaFawcett, the first woman to obtain the top score on the Mathematical Tripos...
phosphate mineral messelite (from Messel in Germany) is first described. PhilippaFawcett is placed above the Senior Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos at the...
Nod Road and in 1970 the Adare Walk site transferred to occupy the PhilippaFawcett Teaching College site on Leigham Court Road, which continues to be...
1889, and permanent vice-principal in 1895. At Newnham, she coached PhilippaFawcett to become the first woman to get the highest score on the Mathematical...
American physicist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Physics. April 4 PhilippaFawcett (died 1948), English mathematician. Henrietta Swan Leavitt (died 1921)...
College, Cambridge from 1971 to 1985. Prior to this she was Principal of PhilippaFawcett College, and before this Principal of Machakos Training College in...
childhood friends was PhilippaFawcett whose mother, Dame Millicent Fawcett, was a leader in the women's suffrage movement. Philippa later went to Cambridge...
1940) 25 March – William Lockwood, cricketer (died 1932) 4 April – PhilippaFawcett, mathematician (died 1948) 5 April – Percy Furnivall, racing cyclist...
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