Whitehead, Trixie Geraldine

 Person: id 41141
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World War I
Family name
Whitehead
Given name(s)
Trixie Geraldine
Initials
T. G.
Gender
Female
Combined start dates
1894
Education notes
NB Received an honorary degree from Trinity College Dublin as Cambridge did not give degrees to women at this time. Trixie did not accept this award until she sat the exams for it. See her Obit. in the Argus, 24 July 1952.
Survived
Survived WWI
OCRd book entry or other narrative
Arts I (Sydney) BA (Melb.) MA (Melb.) MA (Trinity) MA (Cambridge) Lithgow Sch. Grad, MA (TCD) & MA (Camb) Girton College, Classical Tripos,. Not in original Book of Remembrance. Whitehead served from 1915-1918 in the War Trade Intelligence Department. After the war she was a headmistress at private schools in England and Switzerland. 1905-1907 Assistant classical mistress Winchester HS, England; 1907-1910 assistant secretary London Society for Women's Suffrage; 1910-1911 secretary NUSS; 1915-1918 War Trade Intelligence Dept; Head mistress of private school, Kent England; Joint head mistress of private school, Beaupre, Switzerland. Educated PLC, Croydon. Previously a resident of the Women's College within The University of Sydney.
USyd residential college
The Women's College, University of Sydney
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