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Did you know... that though she lacked her brothers' opportunities for formal schooling, the Irish suffragistMary Ward was the first woman to pass the Cambridge moral sciences tripos with first class honours?
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... that in spite of lacking her brothers' opportunities for formal schooling, the Irish suffragistMary Ward(pictured) was the first woman to pass the Cambridge moral sciences tripos with first class honours? Source: "In 1879 she gained a first class honours in the moral sciences tripos, the first woman to do so". Kennedy Smith, Ann (9 August 2018b). "Ward [née Martin], Mary Jane". ODNB. doi:10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.111289.
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Long enough, new enough, interesting to a broad audience. AGF on off-line source. Earwig is clear and no QPQ seems to be needed. G2G. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 22:36, 12 September 2019 (UTC)