Summary
Dorothy Cisley Oldridge de la Hey (6 February 1884 – 18 November 1981)[1] was an English educator who was one of the pioneers in women's education in India.[2] She was the founder of Queen Mary's College in Madras, Madras Presidency in British India in 1914. It is the third oldest women's college in India.[3][4][5][6]
She was born in Marple, Cheshire, the daughter of Rev. Edward Oldridge de la Hey and Esther Phoebe Hodgson.[7]
She was 30 years old when she came to Madras to visit her brother, Clement de la Hey, Vice Principal of Newington College in Madras. She became the head of the college after consultation with then Governor of Madras Presidency Lord Pentland. It was called Madras College for Women, and was later renamed Queen Mary's College in 1917. Dorothy de la Hey had earned a master's degree in history from Oxford and did teacher training in St. Mary's College, Paddington. She was the principal until 1936, when she retired, and also taught in the college.[8]
She died in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, aged 97.[9]
References edit
- ^ DE LA HEY, Miss Dorothy Cisley in The India Office and Burma Office List 1945
- ^ "Trail-blazer in women's education". The Hindu. 16 April 2003. Retrieved 1 May 2018.[dead link]
- ^ "Madras's first women's college". S. Muthiah. The Hindu. 26 January 2014. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
- ^ "Madras miscellany: Three who led the way". S. Muthiah. The Hindu. 16 August 2015. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
- ^ Documentation on Women, Children, and Human Rights. Sandarbhini, Library and Documentation Centre, All India Association for Christian Higher Education. 2003. p. 53. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
- ^ "One hundred years of fortitude". Anusha Parthasarathy. The Hindu. 11 April 2014. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
- ^ 1891 England Census
- ^ Sita Anantha Raman (1996). Getting Girls to School: Social Reform in the Tamil Districts, 1870-1930. Stree. p. 184. ISBN 978-81-85604-06-0. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
- ^ "Deaths". The Times. The Times Digital Archive. 21 November 1981. p. 1.