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| Description | Papers regarding Dame Lucy Stuart Sutherland (1903-1980), President of the Girls' Public Day School Trust, 1947-1973, including photocopies and press cuttings of obituaries and order of service for Dame Sutherland's memorial service, 1980; extract from Who's Who, 1972; letters to and from Lady Sutherland; photograph of Lady Sutherland at a meeting of the Friends of the GPDST, 1958; correspondence with Dame Sunderland, 1947-1973, including letters regarding her retirement. |
| AdminHistory | Lucy Stuart Sutherland, (1903-1980), historian and college head was the president of the Girls' Public Day School Trust, 1947-1973.She was born in Australia on 21 June 1903. She was brought up in South Africa and educated at Roedean School, Johannesburg, the University of the Witwatersrand and Somerville College, Oxford. She graduate from Oxford in 1927 and was appointed a tutor at Somerville College. During the 1930s she built up her reputation as a scholar. In 1941 she became a principal in the Board of Trade. In 1945 she became the principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She was the Chair of the Board of Trade Working Party on the lace industry, 1946, and the member of a committee of enquiry on the distribution and exhibition of cinematographic films, 1949, the royal commission on taxation of profits and income, 1951, the committee into grants for students 1958, and later the University Grants Committee 1964-1969. From 1961-1969, she was the pro-vice-chancellor at Oxford. She was appointed CBE in 1947 and DBE in 1969. She retired in 1971 and died on 20 August 1980. |