Beatrice was born in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England back in 1871 to Edward and Sarah. She attended the Notting Hill High School for Girls entering University College Wales in 1891. Her focus was philosophy, earning a Bachelor of arts in Mental and Moral sciences from the University of London in 1894.
From 1894 to 1897 she taught high school in Sunderland. In 1898, she began teaching at Bedford College in London retiring after 35 years in 1933. She died of cancer in 1948, she was 75. Of course, I’m writing about Beatrice Edgell. What you may not know about her is: she was the first British woman to earn a PhD in psychology and the first British woman to be named a professor of psychology. If that wasn’t enough she was also the first female president of the British Psychological Society, the Aristotelian Society, the Mind Association and the Psychological Division of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Not too shabby. Until tomorrow keep a smile on your face and a penny in your pocket.
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