Alice Havergal Skillicorn
Former college principal
About Alice Havergal Skillicorn
Lived 1894 – 1979 (aged 84–85).
Alice Havergal Skillicorn CBE (1894 – 3 February 1979) was a Manx academic. From 1935 to 1960, she was Principal of Homerton College, Cambridge.
Biography Skillicorn was born in Ramsey, Isle of Man, the daughter of Edward Skillicorn and Alice Kelly Goldsmith. Her father was a shoemaker, and her mother was a baker and confectioner. She earned a teaching certificate in 1916 and studied at the London School of Economics.
Skillicorn taught in London and Durham. She was an HMI from 1928 until her appointment at Homerton in 1935, succeeding Mary Allan. Homerton College owns a portrait of Skillcorn, painted by Henry Lamb in 1953.
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Who was Alice Havergal Skillicorn?
former college principal
When was Alice Havergal Skillicorn born?
Alice Havergal Skillicorn was born in 1894.
When did Alice Havergal Skillicorn die?
Alice Havergal Skillicorn died in 1979.
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