Hope Winch
Hope Constance Monica Winch (1894 - 8 April 1944) was an English pharmacist and academic.[1][2][3]
Biography
Winch attended the Clergy Daughters' School in Casterton, Kirkby Lonsdale. After completing her secondary education, she trained for a year at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle upon Tyne, learning practical aspects of pharmacy, then worked for three years in the hospital's dispensary.[3]
Winch then moved to London and studied at the School of Pharmacy at the University of London, qualifying as a chemist and druggist in 1917. Following graduation, she worked in the university's research laboratories for two years.[2] In 1920, she was appointed lecturer in pharmacy[4][5] at Sunderland Technical College, now the University of Sunderland. She was the university's first full-time lecturer in the field, and began by teaching three students and 25 ex-servicemen. In 1926, two additional lecturers were appointed and Winch opened a dispensary; in 1928, she opened a laboratory for drug preparation.[2]
In 1930 the university's pharmacy department was recognised by the University of London for teaching its bachelor of pharmacy degree off-site, one of the first such recognitions in England.[1][2] Winch was officially appointed the head of the department.[2]
Death and legacy
Winch died in a climbing accident while climbing Scafell Pike in the Lake District in 1944.[6] In 1984, the University of Sunderland established the Hope Winch Society, an alumni organisation for pharmacy graduates.[7]
References
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- ^ a b c d e Hudson & Boylan (2013). The School of Pharmacy, University of London: Medicines, Science and Society, 1842-2012. Academic Press. p. 102.
- ^ a b Rayner-Canham & Rayner-Canham (2008). Chemistry was Their Life: Pioneering British Women Chemists, 1880-1949. World Scientific. p. 407.
- ^ "Talk in memory of city pioneer". Sunderland Echo. October 15, 2014.
- ^ "Celebrating pharmacy's first lady". University of Sunderland News. February 6, 2018. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "The inspiring female Sunderland pharmacy lecturer who was killed in climbing accident". Sunderland Echo. February 7, 2018. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
- ^ "Hope Winch Society - University of Sunderland". alumni.sunderland.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-10-29.