Rose Graham (historian)

Rose Graham CBE (16 August 1875 – 29 July 1963) was a British religious historian.

Rose Graham
Born16 August 1875
London
Died29 July 1963 (1963-07-30) (aged 87)
St Bartholomew's Hospital, London
NationalityBritish

Life

Graham was born in London in 1875. She went to Notting Hill High School and then on to Somerville College, Oxford.[1] She worked as a researcher and published books on church history beginning with her first on St Gilbert of Sempringham who had founded a double monastery.[2] Graham was encouraged by her mother and with her she travelled in France to research her second book. She wasn't able to gain a degree until 1920 from Oxford.[3] She gained her doctorate in 1929 again at Oxford.

In 1945 she became the first female president of the British Archaeological Association which she held until 1951 when she served on as vice president until 1963.[1]

She died in 1963. Her early work on ecclesiastical history is seen as a great foundation for later scholarship on women's history.[4]

References
  1. Emily J. Horning, ‘Graham, Rose (1875–1963)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, September 2010 accessed 7 September 2015
  2. Graham, Rose. S. Gilbert of Sempringham and the Gilbertines: a history of the only English monastic order (London: Elliott Stock, 1903)
  3. _____, "Degrees conferred at Oxford". Yorkshire Post, 15 October 1920. 5.
  4. Berg, Maxine (1996). A woman in history : Eileen Power, 1889-1940. Cambridge [etc.]: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521568528.
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