Eleanor Smith (mai fafutuka)

Eleanor Elizabeth Smith (an haife ta a ranar 30 ga watan Satumba na shekara ta 1822 - 15 Satumba 1896) ta kasance mai fafutukar ilimi ta Irish. Ta zama ɗaya daga cikin amintattu uku da ke gudanar da Kwalejin Bedford . A lokacin Kwalejin Bedford tana ɗaya daga cikin wurare kalilan inda mata za su iya samun wani abu da ke kusa da ilimin jami'a. An ce Kwalejin Bedford ita ce cibiyar Burtaniya ta farko da mata ke gudanarwa.

 Shekaru na farko 
An haifi Smith a Dublin, a Ireland, 'yar John Smith (1792-1828) da matarsa, Mary Murphy . Mahaifinta lauya ne, amma ya mutu a 1828, sannan Maryamu ta tura iyalin zuwa wurare daban-daban a Ingila kafin su zauna a Ryde a Isle of Wight .  Smith tana da 'yan uwa goma sha uku, tare da ɗan'uwanta Henry John Stephen Smith ya zama fitaccen masanin lissafi. Smith ta ci gaba da sha'awar harsuna, tana koya wa kanta Ibrananci lokacin da take 'yar shekara bakwai kawai. Daga baya ta yi tafiya a ko'ina a Turai, tana ba da sha'awarta ga wallafe-wallafen Turai.

 Ayyuka 
A cikin shekarun 1860, Smith ta koma Oxford, inda ɗan'uwanta ke aiki, kuma ta shirya jerin laccoci ga mata ta farfesa da ke da alaƙa da Jami'ar Oxford. Da yake an san ta da ƙwararre a kan ilimin mata, an kira ta a matsayin shaida ga Hukumar Royal ta 1864 kan Makarantu.  A sakamakon shawarwarinta, an kafa allon makaranta a duk faɗin Ingila da Wales a cikin 1870, kuma an zabi Smith a cikin Kwamitin makaranta Oxford - mace ɗaya da aka zaba a Oxford, kuma ɗaya daga cikin bakwai kawai a duk faɗuwar Ingila.

Sauran mambobin kwamitin makarantar sun yanke shawarar cewa ilimi a cikin birni ya kamata ya ci gaba da gudanar da kungiyoyin addini, amma Smith ya yi jayayya cewa ya kamata su kafa makarantar kwamiti da ba ta addini ba. Ba ta yi nasara ba a cikin wannan, kuma ta sauka daga kwamitin a 1873, lokacin da ɗan'uwanta ya mutu.

A shekara ta 1879, Smith ta kafa Kwalejin Somerville, ɗaya daga cikin kwalejojin Oxford guda biyu na farko don mata. Ta yi aiki a majalisarta, kuma ta zama mai kula da Kwalejin Bedford, London. Wanda ya kafa Kwalejin Bedford, Elizabeth Reid ta mutu a 1866 kuma ta bar kwalejin a hannun Eliza Bostock, Jane Martineau da Smith. Uku daga cikinsu sun damu da cewa makarantar Kwalejin Bedford za ta zama Anglican a karkashin shugaban, Francis Martin. Sun rufe makarantar.

Smith tana da sha'awar kiwon lafiya, ta yi aiki a kan allon Radcliffe Infirmary da Sarah Acland Home, kuma a matsayin darektan Cibiyar Kula da Lafiya ta gari.

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Rukuni:Haifaffun 1822