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Having for many years been involved in the education of prospective chartered surveyors, and being an academic lawyer with qualifications in taxation, I became interested in the development of the three professions of law, surveying and accountancy, not least because an understanding of the development of the professions and their education and assessment is invaluable in developing new materials and directions.
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First women in law, government, the professions, music and other notable posts, achievements and matters of interest.
This listing has grown into something of an obsession from a single lecture slide showing some of the first women to achieve various legal qualifications and posts. It is, if I say it myself, rather more extensive and eclectic than many such collations. Just a list, but hopefully a trigger to further exploration.
This listing has grown into something of an obsession from a single lecture slide showing some of the first women to achieve various legal qualifications and posts. It is, if I say it myself, rather more extensive and eclectic than many such collations. Just a list, but hopefully a trigger to further exploration.
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Women in Street Names
Looking at the public commemoration of women and its impact on women’s self-perception – which embraces my ‘women in street names’ project, launched at the LSE in 2019. The project was the subject of my key note speech at the West of England and South Wales Women’s History Network Annual Conference 2021 - West of England & South Wales Women's History Network.
A book of mini-biographies is in progress.
Here is the growing database, with an open invitation for you to let me have further names which you may come across in your own areas on on your travels. Just email me name and location at carrie@carriedesilva.co.uk - no need to have further details .
Search the listing by 'control F' as usual. Yellow highlights indicate a lack of information, so do let me know if you have information on any of these gaps.
Looking at the public commemoration of women and its impact on women’s self-perception – which embraces my ‘women in street names’ project, launched at the LSE in 2019. The project was the subject of my key note speech at the West of England and South Wales Women’s History Network Annual Conference 2021 - West of England & South Wales Women's History Network.
A book of mini-biographies is in progress.
Here is the growing database, with an open invitation for you to let me have further names which you may come across in your own areas on on your travels. Just email me name and location at carrie@carriedesilva.co.uk - no need to have further details .
Search the listing by 'control F' as usual. Yellow highlights indicate a lack of information, so do let me know if you have information on any of these gaps.
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Irene Barclay (1894-1989)
Mrs Barclay was the first woman to qualify as a chartered surveyor with the Surveyors’ Institution (now the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors), qualifying in 1922. I wrote her short entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography but continue to explore her life. Considerable resources were introduced to me by the Somers Town History Club - People's Museum Somers Town (particularly on her work with St Pancras Housing Association, now Origin Housing) and through Mrs Barclay's grandsons, I was led to the archive of York University, Toronto, which holds some of her papers - Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections (yorku.ca).
For more, see:
Mrs Barclay was the first woman to qualify as a chartered surveyor with the Surveyors’ Institution (now the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors), qualifying in 1922. I wrote her short entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography but continue to explore her life. Considerable resources were introduced to me by the Somers Town History Club - People's Museum Somers Town (particularly on her work with St Pancras Housing Association, now Origin Housing) and through Mrs Barclay's grandsons, I was led to the archive of York University, Toronto, which holds some of her papers - Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections (yorku.ca).
For more, see:
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Early women lawyers
Having done work on early women lawyers, in the UK and overseas (particularly for the First Women Lawyers in Britain and Empire Symposia series, 2015-19), I am now exploring the lives of the first women to qualify as lawyers in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), as part of an Inner Temple/St Mary’s University, Twickenham project on early black, Asian and ethnic minority lawyers. I am particularly working on barrister/advocate Ezlynn Deraniyagala (1908-1973). . [Click to see Inner Temple website note]
Having done work on early women lawyers, in the UK and overseas (particularly for the First Women Lawyers in Britain and Empire Symposia series, 2015-19), I am now exploring the lives of the first women to qualify as lawyers in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), as part of an Inner Temple/St Mary’s University, Twickenham project on early black, Asian and ethnic minority lawyers. I am particularly working on barrister/advocate Ezlynn Deraniyagala (1908-1973). . [Click to see Inner Temple website note]
sWomen’s Institute
Work on ‘first women’ led me to a number of women’s organisations and, in addition to being a long-standing WI member, I wrote a little on the early days, and particularly the early people, involved in the establishment and early years of the National Federation of Women's Institutes in England and Wales.
Work on ‘first women’ led me to a number of women’s organisations and, in addition to being a long-standing WI member, I wrote a little on the early days, and particularly the early people, involved in the establishment and early years of the National Federation of Women's Institutes in England and Wales.
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The history of agricultural education and research
I have an on-going interest in the history of agricultural education, particularly, but not exclusively, for women and girls; largely in the UK and Ireland but also the US and other areas.
To purchase a hard copy of the following book, email carrie@carriedesilva.co.uk - £20 (including postage). The e-book is free to download on the link below. I am always happy to receive suggestions for additions or corrections as I hope this chronology will be used as a general reference and starting point for further explorations of your own.
To purchase a hard copy of the following book, email carrie@carriedesilva.co.uk - £20 (including postage). The e-book is free to download on the link below. I am always happy to receive suggestions for additions or corrections as I hope this chronology will be used as a general reference and starting point for further explorations of your own.
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A Gazetteer of Agricultural Education and Research:
a chronology of key places, people, publications and events from the 17th to the 21st centuries. | ||||
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entries:
- the first woman chartered surveyor (Irene Barclay, 1894-1989)
- the first woman solicitor (co-authored) (Carrie Morrison, 1888-1950)
- the first agricultural adviser to the Women’s Institute (Mary ‘Pollie’ Hirst Simpson, 1871-1947)
- an early woman crop scientist at Rothamstead (Mary Dilys Glynne, 1895-1991)
- the first woman admitted to Lincoln's Inn, an academic economist (Marjorie Powell Robinson, 1893-1939)
