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First female graduates who studied at Trinity

1906

The Library of Trinity College Dublin

The Library of Trinity College Dublin
Dublin, Ireland

Although women were admitted to Trinity College in 1904, and some who had studied elsewhere were conferred in that year, this is a picture of the first female honours graduates who had studied as undergraduates in the College.
Eileen Frances McCutchan was the first woman to graduate in Ethics and Logic; Lizzie Burkitt Craig became a missioner, working with teacher training in China. with DU FEM; Muriel Lora Bennett was the sister of suffragist Louie Bennett; Eliza Beck Douglas; Edith Marion O'Shaughnessy, Anne Jane Sanderson (with glasses) graduated in history; Madeline Stuart Baker was, with her sister Lily, among the earliest female medical graduates of the College. She was the first woman to be conferred with an MD. Brigid Stafford,from Waterford, was a suffragist who represented Ireland at the Conference of the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance in Paris, 1926. She was a civil servant in the Department of Industry and commerce. She was a pioneer member of the Irish Federation of University Women.

Details

  • Title: First female graduates who studied at Trinity
  • Date: 1906
  • Location: Dublin
  • Rights: TCD
  • Collection: Female Suffrage
  • Catalogue Number: TCD MUN WOMEN/7

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