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Phillpotts, Bertha Surtees.
Bertha Surtees Phillpotts (1877–1932)


Mistress of Girton College 1922–25


Bertha Surtees Phillpotts was educated at home in Bedford (her father
was the headmaster of Bedford Grammar School). She was a niece of
Katharine Jex-Blake and came to Girton nearly two decades after her aunt
as a College Scholar to read Modern Languages 1898–1901. Her fourth year
(1902) was spent studying Old Norse and Anglo-Saxon. She continued her
research first as a Pfeiffer Research Student, spending time working in
Iceland and at Copenhagen University then as the first Lady Carlisle
Research Student at Somerville College, Oxford 1913–1916; and after her
period as Mistress, as a Research Fellow at Girton 1925–32. She was also
College Librarian 1906–09. By the time BSP became Mistress in 1922 she
was an internationally renowned scholar of Scandinavian languages,
archaeology and literature – she had also spent the previous year as
Principal of Westfield College, London. Her period as Mistress was very
short but memorable. Her influence as a member of the Statutory
Commission for Cambridge University (1923–27) did much to secure
benefits for both women and the College within the University. Her
University appointments included Lecturer and Director of Scandinavian
Studies (1926–32) and Head of the Department of Other Languages
(1930–32). She was created DBE in 1929. She married Hugh Frank Newall,
Fellow of Trinity and Professor of Astrophysics, in 1931.


Bertha Surtees PHILLPOTTS
Mrs Bertha Surtees NEWALL
Approx. lifespan: 1877–1932
Mistress: Girton College 1922-25
Bertha Surtees Phillpotts was educated at home in Bedford (her father
was the headmaster of Bedford Grammar School). She was a niece of
Katharine Jex-Blake and came to Girton nearly two decades after her aunt
as a College Scholar to read Modern Languages 1898-1901. Her fourth year
(1902) was spent studying Old Norse and Anglo-Saxon. She continued her
research first as a Pfeiffer Research Student, spending time working in
Iceland and at Copenhagen University then as the first Lady Carlisle
Research Student at Somerville College, Oxford 1913-1916; and after her
period as Mistress, as a Research Fellow at Girton 1925-32. She was also
College Librarian 1906-09. By the time BSP became Mistress in 1922 she
was an internationally renowned scholar of Scandinavian languages,
archaeology and literature - she had also spent the previous year as
Principal of Westfield College, London. Her period as Mistress was very
short but memorable. Her influence as a member of the Statutory
Commission for Cambridge University (1923-27) did much to secure
benefits for both women and the College within the University. Her
University appointments included Lecturer and Director of Scandinavian
Studies (1926-32) and Head of the Department of Other Languages
(1930-32). She was created DBE in 1929. She married Hugh Frank Newall,
Fellow of Trinity and Professor of Astrophysics, in 1931.
Katharine JEX-BLAKE
Hugh Frank NEWALL

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