Edith Major

Edith Helen Major, CBE[1] (15 February 1867 – 17 March 1951)[2] was an Irish educationalist.[3]

Major was born in Lisburn and educated at Methodist College Belfast[4] and Girton College, Cambridge.[5] She was Assistant Mistress at Blackheath High School from 1891 to 1900; Headmistress of Putney High School from 1891 to 1910;[6] and Head Mistress of King Edward VI High School for Girls from 1910 until 1925. Major was Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge from 1925 until 1931.[7][8]

References
  1. 'The New Year Honours' The Times (London, England), January 1, 1931, Issue 45709, p.6
  2. 'Miss E. H. Major' The Times (London, England), March 19, 1951, Issue 51953, p.8
  3. "Major, Edith Helen". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 16 February 2019. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  4. THE INTERMEDIATE EXAMINATIONS Freeman's Journal, Friday, September 14, 1883
  5. Girton College Register, 1869–1946: Cambridge; CUP; 1948
  6.  "Major, Edith Helen". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  7. "The colleges and halls: Girton". British History Online. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  8. Margaret Bryant, Major, Edith Helen (1867–1951), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.


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