page_title: List of Somerville College, Oxford, people
section_title: Education and Heads of Colleges
hierarchical_section_title: List of Somerville College, Oxford, people / Alumni / Education and Heads of Colleges
caption_attribution_description: English: Fry, Roger Eliot; Margery Fry, Principal (1927-1931); Somerville College, University of Oxford; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/margery-fry-principal-19271931-223432
context_page_description: The following is a list of notable people associated with Somerville College, Oxford, including alumni and fellows of the college. This list consists almost entirely of women, due to the fact that Somerville College was one of the first two women's colleges of the University of Oxford, admitting men for the first time in 1994. The college and its alumni have played a very important role in feminism.
  Somervillians include prime ministers Margaret Thatcher and Indira Gandhi, Nobel-Prize-winning scientist Dorothy Hodgkin, journalist Esther Rantzen, reformer Cornelia Sorabji, writers Marjorie Boulton, Vera Brittain, A. S. Byatt, Susan Cooper, Penelope Fitzgerald, Winifred Holtby, Nicole Krauss, Iris Murdoch and Dorothy L. Sayers, politicians Shirley Williams, Margaret Jay and Sam Gyimah, Princess Bamba Sutherland and her sister, philosophers Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley and Onora O'Neill, archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon, actress Moon Moon Sen, soprano Emma Kirkby and numerous activists.
context_section_description: Jane Aaron (1951), Welsh educator, literary researcher and writer
  Marian Gertrude Beard (1885–1958), Irish-born educator and translator; headmistress of Putney High School
  Mary Bennett (1913–2005), academic and Principal of St Hilda's College, Oxford; daughter of H. A. L. Fisher and Lettice Fisher
  Lalage Bown (1927), educator; first organizing secretary of the International Congress of Africanists; first woman to receive the William Pearson Tolley Award from Syracuse University
  Alice Bruce (1867–1951), educator and school administrator; long serving staff member of Somerville Hall and President of Aberdare Hall in Cardiff
  Dame Averil Cameron DBE FSA FBA FRHistS (1940), professor emerita of Late Antique and Byzantine History; former Warden of Keble College, Oxford
  Elizabeth Millicent Chilver (1914–2014), Principal of Bedford College, London and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford; second woman to receive the Kenyon Medal
  Dame Elan Closs Stephens DBE (1948), Welsh educator and the Wales representative on the BBC Board
  Barbara Craig (1915–2005), archaeologist, classicist; Principal of Somerville College
  Helen Darbishire CBE FBA (1881–1961), literary scholar and Principal of Somerville College
  Agnes de Selincourt (1872–1917), Christian missionary in India, responsible for the founding of missions; first Principal of Lady Muir Memorial College, Allahabad, India; Principal of Westfield College, London
  Flora Forster (1896–1981), Welsh educator and author
  Margery Fry (1874–1958), prison reformer; one of the first women to become a magistrate; Secretary of the Howard League for Penal Reform; Principal of Somerville College
  Grace Eleanor Hadow OBE (1875–1940), author, principal of what would become St Anne's College, Oxford, and vice-chairman of the Women's Institute
  Ethel Hurlbatt (1866–1934), Principal of Bedford College, London; first President of Aberdare Hall in Cardiff; later Warden of Royal Victoria College, the women's college of McGill University, in Montreal, Canada
  Julia Huxley (1862–1908), founded Prior's Field School for girls; the game word ladder was devised for her
  Dame Tamsyn Imison DBE (1937–2017), educator and "educational strategist"; headteacher of the Hampstead School
  Dame Kathleen Kenyon DBE (1906–1978), leading archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent, best known for her excavations of Jericho; has been called one of the most influential archaeologists of the 20th century; refined the Wheeler-Kenyon method; Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford
  Jane Kirkaldy (1869–1932), science educator at various schools in Oxford for 36 years; one of the first women to obtain first-class honors in the natural sciences; contributed greatly to the education of the generation of English women scientists
  Julia de Lacy Mann (1891–1985), economic historian and Principal of St Hilda's College, Oxford
  Michele Moody-Adams, philosopher; first female and first African-American dean of Columbia University
  Dame Anne Mueller DCB (1930–2000), civil servant and academic; first woman to become a Permanent Secretary at HM Treasury; Chancellor of De Montfort University
  Elisabeth Murray  FRHistS FSA (1909–1998), English biographer and educationist
  Hilda D. Oakeley (1867–1950), philosopher, educationalist and author; first Warden of the new Royal Victoria College; first woman to deliver McGill's annual university lecture
  Onora O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve CH CBE FRS FBA FMedSci (1941), philosopher; first female winner of the Berggruen Prize; crossbench member of the House of Lords; Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge
  Daphne Park, Baroness Park of Monmouth CMG OBE FRSA (1921–2010), spy, clandestine senior controller in MI6; Principal of Somerville College
  Dame Emily Penrose DBE (1858–1942), Principal of Royal Holloway College, Bedford College and Somerville College; first woman to gain a First in Greats (Classics) at Oxford
  Alice Prochaska FRHistS (1947), former archivist and librarian; Principal of Somerville College
  Evelyn Procter FRHistS (1897–1980), historian and academic; Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford; fir
caption: Margery Fry
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