Mary Allan (academic)

Mary Miller Allan (1869 – 1956)[1] was a British academic.[2] From 1903 to 1935, she was Principal of Homerton College, Cambridge.[3]

Biography

Allan was born and raised in Glasgow, and educated at the University of St Andrews, graduating with a "Lady Literate in Arts" (LLA) degree in 1894 (before women were allowed to earn standard degrees at the university).[3]

Allan became principal of Homerton College, Cambridge in 1903.[4] She appointed female lecturers, and became the first female president of the Training College Association in 1916.[5] She retired from Homerton in 1935.[3][6]

Allan died in 1956, in her eighties. There is a Mary Allan Building at Cambridge, named in her memory.[7] A 1919 portrait of Allan, by Hugh Goldwin Rivière, is in the college's collection.[1]

References
  1. "Mary Miller Allan, Principal of Homerton College (1903–1935)". Art UK. Retrieved 2019-03-31.
  2. "Women in Teacher Training Colleges, 1900–1960: A Culture of Femininity" Edwards, E p77: London; Routledge; 2001 ISBN 0203259394
  3. "Mary Miller Allan". Homerton 250. Retrieved 2019-03-31.
  4. Edwards, Elizabeth. "Mary Miller Allan: The Complexity of Gender Negotiations for a Woman Principal of a Teacher Training College" in Pam Hirsch and Mary Hilton, eds., Practical Visionaries: Women, Education, and Social Progress, 1790-1930 (Routledge 2014): 149- 164. ISBN 9781317877226
  5. Edwards, Elizabeth (1995-06-01). "Homoerotic friendship and college principals, 1880-1960". Women's History Review. 4 (2): 149–163. doi:10.1080/09612029500200080. ISSN 0961-2025.
  6. Warner, Peter. "Homerton: A Brief History"; p. 3.
  7. "Mary Allan Building". Map of the University of Cambridge. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
Academic offices
Preceded by
John Charles Horobin		 Principal of Homerton College, Cambridge
1903–1935		 Succeeded by
Alice Havergal Skillicorn


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