Elinor Mary Beatrice Philipps (1 September 1872 – 1965) was an English science educator and missionary.
Elinor Philipps | |
|---|---|
| Born | Elinor Mary Beatrice Philipps 1 September 1872 |
| Died | 1965 (aged 92–93) |
She was born 1 September 1872 in Winfrith, Dorset.
She studied the natural science tripos at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1894–5, and then taught as an assistant mistress at Bradford Girls' Grammar School. In 1897, Adam Sedgwick withdrew permission for women at the University of Cambridge to attend his lectures in morphology, so the Balfour Biological Laboratory for Women added a lecture room to their premises and appointed Philipps as lecturer in morphology, a post she held from 1898 to 1902.[1]
She then travelled to Japan, and taught at Japan Women's University, Tokyo, until 1941.[2] She was attached to St Hilda’s Mission for Women.[3][4]
In 1941, she travelled to Canada to continue her missionary work.[5]
She died in 1965.[6]
References
edit- ^ Richmond, Marsha L. (1997). ""A Lab of One's Own": The Balfour Biological Laboratory for Women at Cambridge University, 1884-1914". Isis. 88 (3): 422–455. doi:10.1086/383769. ISSN 0021-1753. JSTOR 236151. PMID 9450359.
- ^ 日本人物情報大系 (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 皓星社. 1999.
- ^ Chance, Linda H.; Reagan, Paul B.; Toda, Tetsuko (2024-01-08). Friendly Connections: Philadelphia Quakers and Japan Since the Late Nineteenth Century. Lexington Books. pp. 262–5. ISBN 978-1-7936-2334-8.
- ^ Philipps, Elinor Gladys (1904). "The Women of Japan". Newnham College Roll Letter.
- ^ "ISTG Vol 9 - M.S. Hie Maru". www.immigrantships.net. Retrieved 2024-09-05.
- ^ Richmond (1997), p. 451.