List of principals of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
The head of Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, is the principal. The current principal is Professor Stephen Blyth, since October 2022.[1]
| Name | Birth | Death | Principal between |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dame Elizabeth Wordsworth | 1840 | 1932 | 1879 – 1909 | Novelist and founding principal, also the founder of St Hugh's College[2] |
| Henrietta Jex-Blake | 1869 | 1953 | 1909 – 1921 | Violinist and school headmistress prior to joining LMH[3] |
| Lynda Grier | 1880 | 1967 | 1921 – 1945 | Economist[4] |
| Dame Lucy Sutherland | 1903 | 1980 | 1945 – 1971 | Historian[5] |
| Sally Chilver | 1914 | 2014 | 1971 – 1979 | Historian, political scientist and anthropologist |
| Duncan Stewart | 1930 | 1996 | 1979 – 1995 | Fellow of Wadham College and university administrator[6] |
| Sir Brian Fall | 1937 | 1995–2002 | Diplomat | |
| Dame Frances Lannon | 1945 | 2002–2015 | Historian | |
| Alan Rusbridger | 1953 | 2015–2021 | Journalist and newspaper editor | |
| Christine Gerrard | 1959 | 2021–2022 | Interim Principal; Professor of English Literature | |
| Stephen Blyth | 2022– | Professor of the Practice of Statistics at Harvard University |
References
[edit]- ^ "The Principal". Retrieved 9 October 2022.
- ^ Lannon, Frances (2004). "Wordsworth, Dame Elizabeth [pseud. Grant Lloyd] (1840 – 1932), college head". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37024. Retrieved 22 March 2016. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Perrone, Fernanda Helen (2004). "Henrietta Jex-Blake (1862 – 1953)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/48442. Retrieved 22 March 2016. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ McWilliams Tullberg, Rita (2004). "Grier, (Mary) Lynda Dorothea (1880 – 1967), educational administrator". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/48438. Retrieved 22 March 2016. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Whiteman, Anne (2004). "Sutherland, Dame Lucy Stuart (1903 – 1980), historian and college head". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31738. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 22 March 2016. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Brundin, Clark (28 May 1996). "Obituary: Duncan Stewart". Independent. Retrieved 10 July 2016.