Ellen Ida Benham

Ellen Ida Benham (12 Maris 1871 - 27 Afrilu 1917) ta kasance malamar kimiyya, shugabar makarantar kuma majagaba a Kudancin Australia .

 Tarihi 
An haifi Ellen a "Talarno", Kapunda, Kudancin Ostiraliya ga lauya William Hoare Benham (27 Nuwamba 1833 -), wanda ya isa Kudancin Australia a cikin jirgin Gipsy a watan Agustan 1853, da matarsa ta biyu Amie Benham née Huggins . Mahaifinta ya yi aiki a matsayin mai aski na tsawon shekaru uku kuma ya kori bijimai kafin ya zauna a matsayin magatakarda na lauya kuma ya yi karatun doka.

Ellen ta sami ilimi a asirce, sannan a Makarantar Ci gaba ta 'Yan Mata kafin ta dauki karatun kimiyya a Jami'ar Adelaide, ta kammala karatun BSc tare da girmamawa a 1892.  Ta koyar da kimiyya a makarantar Christ Church Anglican a Kapunda na ɗan gajeren lokaci kafin ta yi yawon shakatawa na Ingila da Turai. Ta dauki matsayin mataimaki a Makarantar Dryburgh, sannan ta koyar a Makarantar Tormore House na dan kadan fiye da shekaru goma sha biyu. A wannan lokacin ta yi tafiya zuwa Ingila, inda ta sami difloma ta Oxford na Ilimi . Bayan mutuwar Farfesa Tate ta koyar da ilimin shuke-shuke a Jami'ar Adelaide kuma an nada ta malami yayin da take jiran isowar Farfesa Osborn  Don haka ita ce, a irin wannan yanayi ga Ada Mary Lambert a Jami'an Melbourne, mace ta farko da aka nada zuwa mukamin ilimi a jami'ar.

 Sanarwa 
A shekara ta 1922 an kafa Ellen Benham Scholarship a Walford don nuna godiya ga gudummawar da ta bayar ga ci gaban makarantar. Benham Wing, wanda ya haɗa da ɗakunan kimiyya, a cikin abin da ya zama Walford Church of England Girls' Grammar School, an kuma sanya masa suna.

Ta kasance co-kafa kuma mai goyon bayan Jami'ar Adelaide ta Mata, kuma shugabanta na shekaru da yawa.

Benham Street, a cikin unguwar Canberra na Chisholm, an sanya masa suna ne don girmama ta.

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