Marianne Bernard

Marianne Bernard (12 February 1839, in Bristol – 9 April 1926, in Bristol) was Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge from 1875 until 1884.[1]

Bernard was educated at the Home and Colonial Training College. from 1910 until 1925.[2] Her appointment as Mistress was not unanimously welcomed within Girton,[3] as some felt her social position had swayed the decision: her maternal uncle was the Viceroy of India from 1864 to 1869.[4] She left in 1884 to marry Peter Wallwork Latham,[5] Downing professor of medicine at Cambridge, going on to hold a position on the college executive committee until 1924.[6]

During her tenure she guided the college through ongoing construction of the college facilities and an outbreak of smallpox in 1878.[7]

References

1. Girton College Register, 1869–1946: Cambridge; CUP; 1948
2. British History On-line
3.  "Bernard (later Latham), Marianne". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
4. William Ford (1887). John Laird Mair Lawrence, a viceroy of India.
5. "Latham, Peter Wallwork". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 17 February 2019. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
6. "Obituary. Peter Wallwork Latham, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P". British Medical Journal. 2 (3280): 902–903. 10 November 1923. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.3280.902-d. PMC 2317696.
7. https://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/events/mistress-1869-1924