The First Women in Law, Government, the Professions, Music and Other Notable Posts, Achievements and Matters of Interest

FIRST WOMEN

The first women in law, government, the professions, music and other notable posts, achievements and matters of interest

Carrie de Silva

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THE FIRST WOMEN IN LAW, GOVERNMENT, THE PROFESSIONS, MUSIC AND OTHER NOTABLE POSTS, ACHIEVEMENTS AND MATTERS OF INTEREST

This list is necessarily incomplete, and somewhat random. It concentrates on the UK (to which all the women relate unless otherwise stated) but includes a number of overseas entries where they are of international relevance (such as Nobel prize winners) or particularly notable (such as the first president), or just general interest (such as Kentucky Oaks winner). Where no country is mentioned, the subject is British. Sporting achievement has been largely, although not completely, omitted and some of the more unusual entries reflect my professional connection to the land- based sector and personal interests in women’s history and pre-1960s popular music.

There are, of course, very many remarkable women who are missing as they were not the first or did not establish an organisation.

There are inevitably errors and omissions - please let me have feedback – [email protected].

Note : pictures have largely been sourced from Google Images. It is stressed that this resource is for educational and informational use only but any concerns about copyright should be addressed to [email protected].

A comma or dash indicates that narrative is a key part of the ‘first’. Words in brackets are for further information only.

Carrie de Silva Lecturing / training / CPD to legal and surveying professions and businesses in the land-based and residential property sectors (health and safety, corporate manslaughter, civil liability, small business legal compliance) Principal Lecturer – Law and Taxation, Harper Adams University [email protected]  07583 144622

1566 Hanged for witchcraft 1608 Doctorate (Law, 1625 Composition of opera (La ‘Mother’ Agnes Waterhouse Avignon) Liberazione di Ruggiero) c1503-1566 Juliana Morella (Spain) Francesca Caccini (Italy) 1594-1653 1587-?

1637 Patent holder (Tincture 1643 Landowner in colonial 1670 Performed playwright of Saffron and Rose) North America (The Prince) Amye Everard Deborah Moody Aphra Behn 1586-c1657 1640-1689

1733 University chair 1744 Women’s magazine with (Bologna) female editor (Female Laura Maria Bassi (Italy) Spectator) 1711-1778 Eliza Haywood c1693-1756

1747 Published cookery book 1754 Medical doctor 1768 Royal Academy founder author (The Art of Cookery) Dorothea Erxleben (Prussia) Member Hannah Glasse 1715-1762) Angelica Kauffman 1708-1770 1741-1807

1768 Royal Academy founder 1786 Discoverer of comet; 1792 First major work of Member 1835 Royal Astronomical Soc. feminist philosophy Mary Moser Member (Vindication of the Rights of 1744-1819 Caroline Herschel Woman) 1750-1848 Mary Wollstonecraft 1759-1797

1812 Major fossil hunter 1821 Key founder British 1835 Royal Astronomical Soc. Mary Anning Ladies' Society for Promoting member 1799-1847 the Reformation of Female Mary Somerville Prisoners (first national 1708-1872 women’s organisation) Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ Fry 1780-1845

1839 Instigating equal rights 1842 Computer programmer 1845 British Archaeological legislation (Custody of Infants Ada Lovelace Soc. member Act) 1815-1852 Anna Gurney Caroline Norton 1795-1857 1808-1877

1848 Salaried journalist 1849 Founder of first higher 1850 Headmistress (North (Morning Chronicle) education college for women London Collegiate) Eliza Linton (Bedford College, now in Frances Buss 1822-1898 University of London) 1827-1894 Elizabeth Jesser Reid 1789-1866

1856 Black lecturer for 1858 Boarding school 1858 Founder Workhouse American Anti-Slavery headmistress (Cheltenham Visiting Society Society Ladies’ College) Louisa Twining Sarah Parker Remond Dorothea Beale 1820-1912 1815-1894 1831-1906

1860 Attorney (Iowa, USA) 1860 Royal Academy schools 1860 Royal Statistical Soc. Belle Babb Mansfield pupil Fellow; 1907 Order of Merit; 1846-1911 Laura Herford 1975 Appearance on UK bank 1831-1870 note (£5, in 1992) Florence Nightingale 1820-1910

1865 Doctor of Medicine 1868 Founder National 1869 College principal Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Society for Women’s Suffrage (Mistress, Girton, Cambridge) 1836-1917 Lydia Becker Emily Davies 1827-1890 1830-1921

1871 Founder National Union 1871 Ascent of the Matterhorn 1875 Poor Law Guardian for Improving the Education Lucy Walker (Kensington) of Women of All Classes 1836-1916 Martha Merrington (Women’s Education Union) c1830-1912 Maria Grey 1816-1906

1872 Freedom of the City of 1872 US presidential candidate 1874 Cambridge Natural London Victoria Woodhull Science Tripos Baroness Angela Burdett- 1838-1927 Mary Ann Higgs Coutts 1854-1937 1814-1906

1874 Inspector of Workhouses 1874 Founder Women's Trade 1875 Doctorate, modern era Jane Nassau Senior Union League (History, University of Zurich) 1828-1877 Emma Paterson Stefania Wolicka 1848-1886 1851-?

1878 Principal of first Oxford 1879 Pharmacist 1879 Pharmacist Women’s college (Lady Isabella Clark Rose Minshull Margaret Hall) 1843-1926 1851-1905 Elizabeth Wordsworth (1840-1932)

1883 Schools Inspector 1883 RASE* Entomologist 1884 Landscape gardener, Emily Jones Eleanor Ormerod public sector; 1902 Principal of 1828-1901 College of Agriculture / Horticulture (Swanley, Kent) Fanny ‘Rollo’ Wilkinson 1855-1951

* Royal Agricultural Soc. of England

1885 National Union of 1889 Women’s Trades Union 1889 Women’s Trades Union Teachers Executive member Assoc. founder Assoc. founder Elizabeth Burgwin Florence Balgarnie Clementina Black 1850-1940 1856-1928 1853-1922

1889 Alderman (London) 1889 £100/week musical hall 1889 Councillor, elected - Emma Cons performer Brixton (later invalidated) 1838-1912 Marie Lloyd Margaret Mansfield 1870-1922 1827-1892

1889 Women’s Trades Union 1890 First place in Cambridge 1891 National newspaper Assoc. founder Mathematics Tripos editor (The Observer) Eleanor Marx Philippa Fawcett Rachel Beer 1868-1948 1858-1927

1892 Architect 1892 Royal Geographical Soc. 1893 Factory Inspector Ethel Charles member (London) 1871-1962 Isabella Bird May Abraham Tennant 1831-1904 1869-1946

1893 Independent Labour 1893 Journalist, The Times 1893 Factory Inspector Party Council member Flora Lugard (Glasgow) Katharine Glasier 1852-1929 Mary Muirhead Paterson 1867-1950 1864-1941

1893 Lyell Fund recipient – 1894 Sanitary Inspector The Geological Society Rose Squire Catherine Raisin 1861-1938 (1855-1945)

1895 Master of Surgery 1895 Royal Commissioner 1895 Royal Commissioner Louisa Aldrich-Blake (Secondary Education) (Secondary Education) 1865-1925 Sophie Bryant Lucy, Lady Frederick 1850-1922 Cavendish 1841-1925

1895 National Trust Co- 1895 Dentist 1895 Royal Commissioner Founder Lilian Murray (Secondary Education) Octavia Hill 1871-1960 Eleanor Sidgwick 1838-1912 1845-1936

1895 London School of 1896 Gardener at Kew 1896 Gardener at Kew Economics co-founder Annie Gulvin Alice Hutchings Beatrice Webb 1858-1943

1897 National Union of 1897 Univ. of Cambridge 1898 Trade Union Official (NU Women’s Suffrage Societies Agriculture Graduate of Shop Assistants) President Louisa Jebb Margaret Bondfield Millicent Garrett Fawcett 1873-1929 See also 1923 and 1929 1847-1929 1873-1953

1898 War Correspondent 1899 Inst. of Electrical 1899 Executed by electric chair (Spanish-American War, Engineers Member; 1906 (Sing Sing, NY) Cuba) Presentation of Paper at Royal Martha Place Kathleen ‘Kit’ Coleman Society 1849-1899 1864-1915 Hertha Ayrton 1854-1923

1900 Olympic Gold Medal 1902 Royal Society of British 1903 Nobel Prize, Physics; (Tennis) Artists Member 1911 Nobel Prize, Chemistry Charlotte Cooper Louise Jopling (Poland/France) 1870-1966 1843-1933 Marie Curie 1867-1934

1903 Speaker at Labour Party 1903 Master of Fox Hounds 1904 Freedom of the City of Conference (West Carbery Foxhounds) Belfast Isabella Ford Edith Somerville Margaret, Viscountess Pirrie 1855-1924 1858-1949 c1857-1935

1905 Nobel Prize, Peace 1905 Imprisoned for the cause 1905 Chief Woman Inspector (Austria) of women’s suffrage of the Board of Education Baroness Bertha von Suttner Annie Kenney Maude Lawrence 1843-1914 1879-1953 1864-1933

1905 Imprisoned for the cause 1905 Freedom of the City of of women’s suffrage Edinburgh Christabel Pankhurst Flora Stevenson 1880-1958 1839-1905

1906 Scientific Officer, 1906 National Federation of 1906 Engineering graduate Rothamsted* Women Workers founder (Queen’s College, Galway) Winifred Brenchley Mary Macarthur Alice Perry 1883-1953 1880-1921 1885-1969

‘* Agricultural Research Station 1907 Councillor (Bewdley) 1908 Mayor (Aldeburgh) 1908 Appearance before House Sarah Woodward Elizabeth Garrett Anderson of Lords 1855-1919 1836-1917 Chrystal Macmillan (1872-1937)

1908 University Professor 1909 Hunger striking for 1909 Fellow, Royal Academy (Univ. of Reading, English political purpose of Music Language) Marion Wallace Dunlop Florence Easton Edith Morley 1864-1942 1882-1955 1875-1964

1909 Nobel Prize, Literature 1909 Pilot’s Licence (France) 1909 Certified Accountant (Sweden) Raymonde de Laroche Ethel Ayres Purdie Selma Lagerlöf 1882-1919 1874-1923 1858-1940

1910 Founded Girl Guide 1910 Imprisoned for failure to 1911 Royal College of movement pay Income Tax Surgeons Fellow Agnes Baden-Powell Clemence Houseman* Eleanor Davies-Colley 1858-1945 1861-1955 1874-1934

* Sister of AE. 1912 Pilot over English 1913 Magistrate (West Ham) 1913 Journalist The Economist Channel Emily Duncan Mary Hamilton Harriet Quinby 1882-1966 1875-1912

1913 Provost, Scotland 1914 Women’s Police Service 1914 Women’s Police Service (Dollar, Clackmannanshire) founder founder; 1918 Parliamentary Lavinia Malcolm Margaret Dawson, Lady candidate c1847-1920 Walsingham Constance ‘Nina’ Boyle 1873-1920 1865-1943

1914 County Horticultural 1915 London Bus Conductor 1915 Million Selling Record Superintendent (Devon) Mrs G Duncan (Carry Me Back to Old Edna Gunnell Virginny) ?-1963 Alma Gluck 1884-1938

1915 Police Officer 1916 US Congress 1916 Board of Agriculture Edith Smith (Republican, Montana) Inspector 1888-1924 Jeanette Rankin Meriel Talbot 1880-1973 1866-1956

1917 Indian National Congress 1917 Ordained Minister 1917 National Federation of President (Congregational Union of Women’s Institutes Chairman Annie Besant England and Wales) Lady Gertrude ‘Trudi’ 1847-1933 Constance Coltman Denman 1889-1969 1884-1954

1917 Ministerial Office 1918 Chief Guide 1918 MP elected (Sinn Féin, (People’s Commissar for Olave Baden-Powell Dublin St Patrick) Social Welfare, Russia) 1889-1977 Constance Markievicz Alexandra Kollontai 1868-1927 1872-1952

1918 Ambassador (Hungarian 1918 Pulitzer Prize, Poetry 1918 Licenced Bookmaker Ambassador to Switzerland) (Love Songs) Helen Vernet Rózsika Schwimmer Sara Teasdale 1877-1956 1877-1948 1884-1933

1919 MP sitting 1919 Institute of Chartered 1919 Inst. of Mechanical (Conservative, Plymouth) Accountants Member Engineers Member; 1931 Inst. Nancy Astor Mary Harris Smith of Locomotive Engineers 1879-1964 1847-1924 Member; Inst. of Mechanical Engineers Fellow Verena Holmes 1889-1964

1919 Founded Save the 1919 Women’s Engineering 1919 Geological Society Children Fund Society Founding President admitted eight women fellows Eglantyne Jebb Rachel Parsons 1876-1928 1885-1956

1920 Jurors (six women - 1920 Curator, Regent’s Park 1920 Society of Incorporated Bristol Quarter Sessions) (London) Zoo Accountants and Auditors, Evelyn Cheesman exam entrant 1881-1969 H M Claridge

1920 Soc. of Technical 1920 Public Official (Petty 1920 Inst. of Automobile Engineers Member Sessions Clerk, Co. Clare) Engineers Member

G Entwistle Georgina Frost C Griff 1879-1939

1921 Inst. of Marine Engineers 1921 Pulitzer Prize, Drama Member (Miss Lulu Bett) Victoria Drummond Zona Gale 1894-1978 1874-1938

1921 Barrister, Ireland 1921 Permanent Birth Control 1921 Pulitzer Prize, Fiction Frances Kyle Clinic Director (The Age of Innocence, USA) 1894-1958 Marie Stopes Edith Wharton 1880-1958 1862-1937

1921 Liberal MP (Louth) 1922 Chartered Surveyor 1922 US Senator (Georgia, Margaret Winteringham Irene Barclay Democrat) 1879-1955 1894-1989 Rebecca Latimer Felton 1835-1930

Unverified image from RICS archive. 1922 Co-operative Congress 1922 CID Police Officer; 1932 1922 Barrister, England President Chief Inspector (Metropolitan) Ivy Williams Margaret Llewelyn Davies Lilian Wyles 1877-1956 1861-1944 1895-1975

1922 Veterinary Surgeon 1922 Solicitor, England 1923 Chief of Native American Aileen Cust Carrie Morrison Tribe (Seminole) 1868-1937 1888-1950 Alice Brown Davis 1852-1935

1923 Name on scent (Chanel 1923 Lord Mayor (Norwich) 1923 Institute of Actuaries No. 5) Ethel Colman Member Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel 1863-1948 Dorothy Davis 1883-1971 1897-197

1923 Advocate, Scotland 1923 Million Selling Blues 1923 Scottish MP (Kinross and Margaret Kidd Singer (Down Hearted Blues) West Perthshire, Conservative); 1900-1989 Bessie Smith 1924 Parl. Sec. - B of 1894-1937 Education. Katharine Murray, Duchess of Atholl 1874-1960

1923 Labour MP 1923 Labour MP (East Ham 1923 Labour MP (Norwich) (Northampton); 1924 Parl. North); 1928 Chairman, Dorothea Jewson Sec. - M of Labour Labour Party Conference 1884-1964 Margaret Bondfield Susan Lawrence 1871-1947

See 1898 and 1929.

1923 Institute of Actuaries 1923 Inst. of Railway Signal 1924 Society of Engineers member Engineers member member Dorothy Spiers E Winterton Annette Ashberry 1897-1977

1924 Country music recording 1924 Country music recording 1924 Institute of Chartered ‘Aunt’ Samantha Eva Davis Accountants, exam entrant Bumgarner Ethel Watts 1878-1960 ?-1960

1925 Stock Exchange Member 1925 Civil Service 1925 Civil Service (Dublin) Administrative Exam; Under- Administrative Exam Oonagh Keogh Secretary (Trade) Enid Russell-Smith c1903 Alix Kilroy Meynell 1903-1989 1903-1999

1925 Civil Service 1925 US State Governor 1926 Political Party Central Administrative Exam (Wyoming) Council (Conservative) Mary Smeiton Nellie Tayloe Ross Caroline Bridgeman 1876-1977 1873-1961

1926 Permanent Librarian, 1926 English Channel Swim 1926 BBC Governor The Women’s Library, Gertrude Ederle Ethel Snowden London 1906-2003 1981-1951

Vera Douie 1894-1979

1926 Inst. of Directors Chair 1927 Inst. of Civil Engineers 1927 BBC Head of Department Margaret Thomas, Member Hilda Matheson Viscountess Rhondda Dorothy Buchanan 1883-1958 1899-1985

1927 Notable British Trials 1927 Police Surgeon 1928 Town Planning Institute editor Nesta Wells member F Tennyson Jesse* 1892-1986 Jocelyn Adburgham 1888-1958 1900-1979

* Born Wynifried Margaret Jesse 1928 Solo pilot over Atlantic 1928 Chartered Forester 1929 Cabinet Minister - M. of Amelia Earhart Mary Sutherland Labour and Privy Counsellor - 1897-1937 1893-1955 Labour Margaret Bondfield 1893-1952

1929 Academy Award, Best 1930 Police Superintendent 1930 Solo Pilot Britain to Actress (USA) (Birmingham) Australia Janet Gaynor Dorothy Peto Amy Johnson 1906-1984 1886-1974 1903-1941

1931 A-Z Map Company 1933 BBC Radio Announcer 1934 Salvation Army General founder Sheila Borrett Evangeline Cory Booth Phyllis Pearsall 1865-1950 1906-1996

1934 US Court of Appeals 1935 Assistant Commissioner 1936 Royal Academy member Florence Ellinwood Allen of Prisons Laura Knight 1884-1966 Lilian Barker 1877-1970 1874-1955

1938 Curator of a National 1939 Band Leader 1939 Oxbridge Professor Museum (V & A) Ivy Benson (Cambridge - Archaeology) Margaret Longhurst 1913-1993 Dorothy Garrod 1882-1958 1892-1968

1939 Conservative Cabinet 1941 Academy of Motion 1942 Inst. of Chemical Minister (Health) Picture Arts and Sciences Engineers member Florence Horsburgh President Hilda Derrek 1889-1969 Bette Davis b1920 1908-1989

1942 TUC Chairman 1942 British Diplomat 1944 US Number 1 (I’ll Walk Anne Loughlin Mary McGeachy Alone) 1894-1979 1901-1991 Dinah Shore 1916-1994

1945 Brain Surgeon 1945 Judge (Tower Bridge 1945 Croix de Guerre Diana Beck Police Court) Evelyn Irons 1902-1956 Sybil Campbell 1900-2000 1889-1977

1945 Royal Society Fellow 1945 Royal Society Fellow 1945 M. for Education Kathleen Lonsdale Marjorie Stephenson (Labour) 1903-1971 1885-1948 Ellen Wilkinson 1891-1947

1946 Soil Association 1946 George Cross 1946 Grand Prix du Festival President and founder Odette Halloes International du Film* (Cannes Eve Balfour 1912-1995 Film Festival - The Red 1899-1990 Meadows) Bodil Ipsen 1889-1964

* Forerunner of Palme d’Or 1946 UN Commission on 1947 British Horse Society 1947 Nobel Prize, Medicine Human Rights President President (Czech/USA) Eleanor Roosevelt Mary Colvin Gerti Radnitz Cori 1884-1962 1907-1988 1896-1957

1947 1922 Committee Exec. 1947 TV cookery programme 1948 Four Olympic Gold Joan ‘Mimi’ Davidson host Medals (The Netherlands) 1894-1985 Marguerite Patten Francina ‘Fanny’ Blankers- 1915-2015 Koen 1918-2004

1948 Senator and 1948 King’s Counsel, 1948 University Vice- Congresswoman (Maine) Scotland Chancellor (Univ. of London) Margaret Chase Smith Margaret Kidd Lillian Penson 1897-1995 1900-1989 1896-1963

1949 King’s Counsel, England 1949 Royal College of 1949 King’s Counsel, England Rose Heilbron Obstetricians and Helena Normanton 1914-2000 Gynaecologists President 1882-1957 Hilda Lloyd 1891-1982

1950s Rocket Scientist (USA) 1950 M. of National Insurance 1950 World Health Assembly Mary Sherman Morgan (Labour) President (India) 1921-2004 Edith Summerskill Rajkumari Amrit Kaur 1901-1980 1889-1964

1950 UNESCO Board member 1950 BBC Controller 1951 Inst. of Landscape (Philippines) Mary Somerville Architects President Geronima Pecson 1897-1963 Brenda Colvin c1895-1989 1897-1981

1951 Coroner (Norfolk) 1952 UK singer to have US 1953 United Nations President Lilian Hollowell number 1 (Auf Wiederseh’n (India) 1905-1989 Sweetheart) Vijaya Pandit Vera Lynn 1900-1990 b1917

1953 UK Charts Number 1 1953 UK Charts Number 1 1955 Permanent Secretary solo (April, (How Much Is) solo (January, You Belong To (Housing) That Doggy in the Window) - Me) - US singer Evelyn Sharp British singer Jo Stafford 1903-1985 Lita Roza 1917-2008 1926-2008

1956 Olympic Showjumper 1957 Founder Member of 1957 Institution of Civil Pat Smythe CND Engineers Fellow 1928-1996 Peggy Duff Mary ‘Molly’ Fergusson 1910-1981 1914-1997

1958 Bank Manager 1958 House of Lords, to sit 1958 House of Lords, (Barclays, Hanover Street, (Cross Bencher) appointed (Labour) London) Stella Isaacs, Baroness Baroness Barbara Wooton Hilda Harding Swanborough 1897-1988 c1911-? 1894-1971

1959 Cricket Umpire 1960 UK Number 1 – 1960 Walk from Land’s End to Doris Coysh Billboard Charts (Everybody’s John O’Groats 1908-1986 Somebody’s Fool) Wendy Lewis Connie Francis b c1943 b1938

1960 Air Traffic Controller; 1960 Prime Minister (Sri 1960 National Housewives’ 1972 Commercial Pilot Lanka) Register* founder Yvonne Pope Sirimavo Bandaranaike Maureen Nichol c1930 1916-2000

* Now National Women’s Register.

1961 National Paper News 1962 County Court Judge; 1962 BBC Sports Personality Desk Editor (The Guardian) 1965 High Court Judge of the Year; 1964 Olympic Nesta Roberts Elizabeth Lane flagbearer for GB 1913-2009 1905-1988 Anita Lonsbrough (swimmer) b1941

1963 Space Flight (USSR) 1964 M. for Overseas Dev.; 1964 Nobel Prize, Chemistry Valentina Tereshkova 1965 M. for Transport, 1968 (UK); 1976 Royal Society b1937 S. of State for Labour and Copley Medal Productivity; First S. of State Dorothy Hodgkin Barbara Castle 1910-1994 1910-2002

1964 M. for the Arts (Labour) 1964 Solo pilot over Pacific 1964 Whip, House of Jennie Lee Betty Miller Commons (Labour) 1904-1988 b1926 Harriet Slater 1903-1976

1965 Whip, House of Lords 1967 M. of Social Security 1967 British Assoc. for the (Labour) (Labour) Advancement of Science Baroness Norah Phillips Judith Hart President 1910-1992 1924-1991 Kathleen Lonsdale 1903-1971

1967 Founder of first ‘modern’ hospice Cicely Saunders 1917-2005

1967 Cambridge Union 1967 British Veterinary 1968 Black Congresswoman President Association President (New York 12th, Democrat) Ann Mallalieu Mary Brancker Shirley Chisholm b1945 1914-2010 1924-2005

1968 Oxford Union President 1968 Royal Horticultural Soc. 1968 Advocate - Jersey, Geraldine Jones Council member Channel Islands Frances Perry Anita Regal 1907-1993 c1944

1969 Metropolitan Police 1969 Youngest MP (Unity) Commander Bernadette Devlin 1968 Non-royal* on Shirley Becke b1947 British postage stamp 1917-2011 Emmeline Pankhurst 1858-1928

‘* except the Queen Mother 1969 RNLI Coxwain 1970 Booker Prize Winner 1970 Deputy Speaker, Elizabeth Hostvedt (The Elected Member) House of Commons, b c1951 Bernice Rubens (Conservative) 1923-2004 Betty Harvie Anderson 1913-1979

1971 Mounted 1971 Mounted 1971 Paratrooper; 1973 Red Policewoman Policewoman Devils Margaret Goodacre Ann MacPherson Jackie Smith b c1946 b c1950

1971 RNLI Lifeboat 1972 Art-Workers’ Guild 1972 Winner - first Ladies Emergency Crew Master Race, Jockey Club Rules Penelope M Sutton Joan Hassall (on Scorched Earth at 50/1) 1906-1988 Meriel Tufnell 1948-2002

1972 Church Estates 1973 Head of Mission (High 1973 Chief Whip, House of Commissioner Commissioner to Botswana) Lords (Labour) Betty Ridley Eleanor Emery Annie Llewelyn-Davies 1909-2005 1918-2007 1915-1997

1973 Medical Research 1973 Stock Exchange member, 1973 National Museum Council member London Director (Science Museum) Helen Muir Susan Shaw Margaret Weston 1920-2005 c1935 b1926

1974 Veuve Cliquot 1974 President (Argentina) 1974 Bridge Grandmaster Businesswoman of the Year Isabel Martínez de Perón (Romania/Austria) Stella Brummell b1931 Erika ‘Rixi’ Markus 1910-1992

1974 BBC Radio 4 newsreader 1974 London Transport Bus 1974 S. of State for Prices and Sheila Tracey driver Consumer Protection; 1976 1934-2014 Rosamund ‘Jill’ Viner Paymaster General c1952-1996 Shirley Williams b1930

1975 Racing Steward 1975 BBC Radio 4 Controller 1975 Everest (Japan) (Goodwood) Clare Lawson Dick Junko Tabei Lavinia Mary Fitzalan- 1913-1987 b1939 Howard, Duchess of Norfolk 1916-1995

1975 Rabbi 1976 Lighthouse keeper 1976 Nobel Peace Prize (UK) Jackie Tabick Peggy Braithwaite Mairéad Corrigan b1948 1919-1996 b1944

1976 Fire Fighter (East 1976 National Hunt Race 1976 RCVS* President Sussex) Winner (as jockey, on Ben Olga Uvarov Mary Joy Langdon* Rule at Stratford) 1910-2001 b1950 Diana Thorne

*Now a nun with the order of the Infant Jesus Sisters. * Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons 1976 UK Ambassador (to 1976 Nobel Peace Prize (UK) 1977 Grand National Rider (on Denmark) Betty Williams Barony Fort at 200/1) Anne Warburton b1943 Charlotte Brew (now Budd) b1927

1977 Nobel Prize, Medicine – 1978 London underground 1978 British Rail train driver unshared train driver Karen Harrison Barbara McClintock Hannah Dadds 1960-2011 1902-1992 1941-2011

1978 Chess Grandmaster 1979 British Medical 1979 Men’s Prison Governor (USSR) Association President (Dungavel, South Lanarkshire) Nona Gaprindashvili Josephine Barnes Agnes Curran b1941 1912-1999 1920-2005

1979 Coast Guard 1979 Prime Minister, UK 1980 Major accountancy body Sue Nelson (Conservative) president (Assoc. of Chartered Margaret Thatcher Certified Accountants) 1925-2013 Vera di Palma

1980 President, elected 1980 Forestry Commissioner, 1982 Grand National (Iceland) England Completer (on Cheers at 66/1) Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Linda Whetstone Geraldine Rees b1930 b1942

1981 Leader, House of Lords 1981 US Supreme Court Judge 1982 Geological Society (Conservative) (Republican) President Baroness Janet Young Sandra Day O’Connor Janet Watson 1926-2002 b1930 1923-85

1983 Trade Union President 1983 Lord Mayor of London 1983 Inst. of Chartered (Soc. of Graphical and Allied Baroness Mary Donaldson Accountants (Ireland), Trades) 1921-2003 President

Brenda Dean Margaret Downes b1943

1983 Assistant Chief 1983 Master of a London 1984 Black Mayor (Slough) Constable (Merseyside) Livery Company (Chartered Lydia Simmons Alison Halford Secretaries & Administrators) b1940 Sylvia Tutt ?-2011

1984 Worshipful Company of 1986 Polytechnic Principal 1986 Worshipful Company Farriers Master (South Bank) of Environmental Cleaners Princess Royal Pauline Perry Master b1950 b1931 Shirley Porter b1930

1987 Black MP (Labour) 1987 Tabloid Editor (News of 1988 Court of Appeal Judge Diane Abbott the World) Elizabeth Butler-Sloss b1953 Wendy Henry b1933

1989 Anglican Bishop (USA) 1989 British woman in space 1990 BBC Board Member Barbara Harris Helen Sharman Margaret Salmon b1930 b1963 c1948

1990 One Man and His Dog 1990 Worshipful Company of 1991 Royal Society Officer sheep trials winner Spectacle Makers Master Anne McLaren Katy Cropper Anne Silk 1927-2007 b1962 b1931

1991 Chelsea Physic Garden 1992 Speaker, House of 1992 S. of State for Health; curator Commons (Labour) 1995 S. of State for National Sue Minter Betty Boothroyd Heritage (Conservative ) b1929 Virginia Bottomley b1948

1992 Director of Public 1992 Association of Chief 1993 Football Club MD Prosecutions Officers of Probation Chair Karren Brady Barbara Mills Jenny Roberts b1969 1940-2011 1940-2010

1993 NASA Chief Scientist 1993 Black Senator (Illinois, 1993 Director General MI5 France Anne Córdova Democrat) Stella Rimington b1947 Carol Moseley Braun b1935 b1947

1993 M. of Agriculture, 1993 Red Deer Commission 1994 Anglican Priest Fisheries and Food Deer Officer Angela Berners-Wilson (Conservative) Emma Tappin b1955 Gillian Shephard b1969 b1940

1993 Worshipful Company of 1994 Royal Astronomical Soc. 1995 Chief Constable Farmers Master President (Lancashire) Ann Wheatley-Hubbard Carole Jordan Pauline Clare b1921 b1941 b1948

1995 RAF Fighter Pilot 1996 Epsom Derby Jockey (on 1997 US Secretary of State Jo Salter Portugese Lil at 200/1) (Democrat) b1968 Alex Greaves Madeleine Albright b1937

1997 Black Peer; 2003 Black 1997 M. for Women; 2001 1997 Inst. of Mechanical Cabinet Minister, International Solicitor General (Labour) Engineers President Development (Labour); 2015 Harriet Harman Pamela Liversidge Black Director of UK Higher b1950 b1949 Education Institution (SOAS) Valerie Amos b1954

1997 S. of State for Northern 1997 Minister for Women 1997 FTSE100 CEO Ireland (Labour) Joan Ruddock (Pearson plc) Mo Mowlam 1949-2005 Marjorie Scardino 1949-2005 b1943

1997 Leader, Commons 1998 Royal Institution Director 1999 S. of State for the (Labour) Susan Greenfield Cabinet Office, Min. for Ann Taylor b 1950 Local Government and the b1947 Regions (Labour) Hilary Armstrong b1945

1999 Worshipful Company of 1999 Worshipful Company of 2001 Stock Exchange CEO Glovers Master Chartered Surveyors Master Clara Furse Margaret Linton Delva Patman b1957 b1946

2001 S. of State for Culture, 2001 S. of State for Scotland 2001 National Trust Director Media and Sport (Labour) (Labour) General Tessa Jowell Helen Liddell Fiona Reynolds b1947 b1950 b1958

2001 Worshipful Company of 2002 Principal Conductor 2002 Royal Astronomical Arbitrators Master (Bournemouth); 2013 Last Society President Victoria Russell Night of the Proms Conductor Jocelyn Bell Burnell b1953 Marin Alsop b1943 b1956

2002 BBSRC* Chief Exec. 2002 The Law Society Julia Goodfellow President b1951 Carolyn Kirby

* Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

2002 Conservative Party 2002 Worshipful Company of 2003 BASC* Regional Officer Chairman Educators Master Liz Lamb Theresa May Judith Osborne b1956

* British Association for Shooting and Conservation 2003 Worshipful Company of 2004 Queen’s Fire Service Medal 2004 Worshipful Company of Patternmakers Master Dany Cotton Clockmakers Master Heather Steel b1955 Jill Hadfield b1943

2004 Law Lord 2005 RNLI Medal for Gallantry 2004 Commodore, Royal Navy Baroness Brenda Hale (Porthcawl Crew) (1*) b1945 Aileen Jones Carolyn Strait b1957

2005 National Statistician, 2005 Permanent Secretary, 2005 Editor Farmers’ Weekly Head of Office of National DEFRA Jane King Statistics Helen Ghosh Karen Dunnell b1956 b1946

2006 Worshipful Company of 2006 Lord Advocate Scotland 2006 Foreign Secretary Tax Advisers Master Elish Angiolini Margaret Beckett Erica Stary b1960 b1943 b1943

2006 Worshipful Company of 2006 Royal Horticultural Society 2006 Worshipful Company of Basketmakers Prime Warden Director General Turners Master Olivia Elton Barratt Inga Grimsey Penrose Halson b1937 b1952 b1946

2006 Speaker, House of Lords 2006 S. of State for Communities 2006 Military Cross Helene Hayman and Local Government (Labour) Michelle Norris b1949 Ruth Kelly b1987 b1968

2006 Worshipful Company of 2006 Advocate General ECJ* 2007 Cathedral Organist Scriveners Master Eleanor ‘Leo’ Sharpston (Guildford) Jessica Reeve b1955 Katherine Dienes b1970

‘* European Court of Justice

2007 M. for Yorkshire and 2007 Nobel Prize, Literature (UK) 2007 Match of the Day football Humberside (Labour) Doris Lessing commentator Caroline Flint 1919-2013 Jacqui Oatley b1961 b1975

‘ 2007 Worshipful Company of 2007 Speaker of the US House of 2007 Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths Liveryman Representatives Joiners and Sealers Liveryman Michelle Parker Nancy Pelosi Carolyn Ponder b1940

2007 Attorney General 2007 Home Secretary 2008 European Commissioner Baroness Patricia Scotland Jacqui Smith Catherine Ashton b1955 b1962 b1956

2008 Institute of Physics 2008 Worshipful Company of 2008 Distinguished Flying Cross President World Traders Master Michelle Goodman Jocelyn Bell Burnell Baroness Susan Garden of b1976 b1943 Frognal b1944

2008 Worshipful Company of 2008 Worshipful Company of 2008 Meteorological Office Furniture Makers Master Security Professionals Master Chief Scientist Margaret Miller Una Riley Julia Slingo b1936 b1950 b1950

2008 Head UK Tax, HMRC 2008 Institution of Civil Engineers 2009 Assistant Commissioner - Lesley Strathie President Metropolitan Police 1955-2012 Jean Venables Cressida Dick

b1960

2009 Poet Laureate 2009 British Soc. for Plant 2009 Approved Farriery Trainer Carol Ann Duffy Pathology President Naomi March b1955 Sarah Gurr b1958

2009 Brigadier (1*) 2009 Nobel Prize – Economics 2009 Royal Institute of British Nicky Moffat (USA) Architects President b1963 Elinor Ostrom Ruth Reed 1933-2012

2009 Worshipful Company of 2009 Black woman with statute in 2009 Worshipful Company of Constructors Master US Capital Feltmakers Master Christine Rigden Sojourner Truth Susan Wood b1965 c1797-1883

2010 Academy Award, Best 2010 Royal Horticultural Society 2010 Chief Medical Officer Director (USA) Director General Sally Davies Kathryn Bigelow Sue Biggs b1949 b1951 b1957

2010 S. of State for Wales 2010 Worshipful Company of 2010 Royal Mail Chief (Conservative) Marketors Master Executive Cheryl Gillan Venetia Howes Moya Greene b1952 b1956 b1954

2010 Brighouse and Rastrick 2010 Football Referee, Men’s 2010 Worshipful Company of Brass Band Member Premier League Management Consultants Laura Hirst Sian Massey Vicky Pryce b1983 b1985 b1952

2011 Worshipful Company of 2011 Institute and Faculty of 2011 Worshipful Company of Tobacco Pipe Makers Actuaries President Borderers Liveryman Fiona Adler Jane Curtis Elizabeth Elvin b1960

2011 Worshipful Company of 2011 Worshipful Company of 2011 Great XII Livery Company Arts Scholars Master Needlemakers Master Master (Haberdashers) Philippa Glanville Pamela Goldberg Deborah Knight

2011 International Monetary 2011 Worshipful Company of 2011 Director Football Assoc. Fund MD Cutlers Master Heather Rabbatts Christine Lagarde b1955 Pamela Liversidge b1956 b1949

2012 Brewer of the Year* 2012 International Criminal 2012 Head of UK City Bank Sara Barton Court Chief Prosecutor (Santander) Fatou Bensouda Ana Patricia Botin b 1961 b 1960

‘*British Guild of Beer Writers

2012 Forestry Commissioner, 2012 Worshipful Company of 2012 Kentucky Oaks winner Scotland Drapers Master (Believe You Can – 10/1) Amanda Bryan Victoria Leathem Rosie Napravnick b 1947 b1988

2012 Worshipful Company of 2012 Royal Soc. of Chemistry 2013 Lawyer, Saudi Arabia Horners Master President Sara Aalamri Georgina Scott Lesley Yellowlees b1953

2013 Worshipful Company of 2013 Crown Agent for Scotland 2013 Inst. of Chemical Plasterers Master Catherine Dyer Engineers President De Bradshaw Judith Hackett

b1954

2013 Chartered Institution of 2013 Worshipful Company of 2013 Worshipful Company of Highways and Transportation Saddlers Firefighters Master President Petronella Jameson Beryl Jeffery

Sheila Holden

2013 Lawn Tennis Assoc. 2013 Rural Industrial Design and 2013 Groceries Code President Building Association Chair Adjudicator Cathie Sabin Alex Shufflebottom Christine Tacon b c1947 b1959

2013 Chair - US Federal 2013 Air Vice Marshall (2*) 2014 NFU* Deputy President Reserve Elaine West Minette Batters Janet Yellen b1961 b 1946

* National Farmers’ Union 2014 Lloyds of London Chief 2014 RICS President 2014 Worshipful Company of Executive Louise Brook-Smith Goldsmiths Warden Inga Beale b1963 Judith Cobham

‘* Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

2014 Royal Navy Submariner 2014 Royal Navy Submariner 2014 Royal Navy Submariner Alexandra Olsen Maxine Styles Penny Thackray

2014 Senior Master of the 2014 London Court of Queen’s Bench Division and International Arbitration DG Queen’s Remembrancer Jacomijn van Haersolte-van Barbara Fontaine Hof b1963

2014 Anglican Bishop 2014 Royal College of Surgeons 2014 Fields Medal, Mathematics (Stockport) of England President Maryam Mirzakhani Libby Lane Clare Marx b1977 b 1966 b1954

2014 Worshipful Company of 2014 TUC* Leader 2014 Worshipful Company of Builders Merchants Master Frances O’Grady Mercers Master Gill Moore b1959 Deborah Ounsted b1957

* Trades Union Congress

2014 Worshipful Company of 2014 Honourable Company of 2014 First Minister, Scotland International Bankers Master Air Pilots Master Nicola Sturgeon Jane Platt Dorothy Saul-Pooley b1970 b1957

2014 Master of the Queen’s 2015 Worshipful Company of 2015 Worshipful Company of Music Stationers and Newspaper Upholders Judith Weir Makers Master Winifred ‘Wynne’ Gilham b1954 Helen Esmonde

2015 Glasgow Art Club 2015 Melbourne Cup Winner (on President Prince of Penzance at 100/1) Efric McNeil Michelle Payne b1985

2015 Incumbent Worshipful 2015 Editor in Chief, The 2015 BBC Orchestra (of Wales) Company Master admitted as Guardian leader Worshipful Company of Katharine Viner Xian Zhang Needlemakers Liveryman b1971 b1973

Gwen Rhys

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