Next Main index Grace Chisholm was educated by a governess at home, then at the age of 17 she passed the Cambridge Senior Examination.
Grace become involved in social work among poor people in London.
She was stopped by her family from studying medicine, the topic of her choice, then decided to enter Girton College, Cambridge in 1889. At Girton her tutor was William Young . She obtained a first class degree in mathematics in 1892. Professor Klein 's view is moderate. There are members of the Faculty here who are more eagerly in favour of the admission of women and others who disapprove altogether.