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Ella Mary Edghill

1881 – 1964

British translator

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Lived 1881 – 1964 (aged 82). Ella Mary Edghill was a linguist and translator.

Ella Mary Edghill (born 13 November 1881 at Aldershot; died 24 January 1964 at St Mary's Hospital, Bristol) was a British translator known primarily for her translation of Categories which appeared in Volume 1 of The Works of Aristotle series, edited by W. D. Ross and J. A. Smith and for her translation of On Interpretation by Aristotle. She was the daughter of Rev. John Cox Edghill, DD, Chaplain General to British Armed Forces, and Mary Nesfield. Towards the end of 1920 she was appointed headmistress of Redland High School for Girls, although she remained at Warwick till the summer of 1921 to see out the school year.

The Clarendon Press edition of 1928 describes Edghill as "E. M. Edghill M.A.; ex-associate of Newnham College, Cambridge".

A Miss "Ella Mary Edghill" was the Headmistress of Saint Felix School between 1926 and 1938.

In 1939, she was a teacher at Eastman's School in Burnham-on-Sea, where her brother, Victor John Collinson Edghill, was the principal.

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British translator

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Ella Mary Edghill was born on 13 November 1881.

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Ella Mary Edghill died on 24 January 1964.

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Ella Mary Edghill was a linguist and translator.

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