Gertrude Crewdson

Gertrude Gwendolen Bevan Crewdson, known as Gwendolen Crewdson, (1872–1913) was an administrator and benefactor of Girton College, Cambridge, and an Egyptologist. She donated her collection of antiquities to Girton in her will.

Early life Crewdson was born on 28 March 1872 in Manchester, England. Her father was William Crewdson, a manufacturer, and her mother was Ellen Waterhouse, the sister of architect Alfred Waterhouse. Waterhouse had designed the college Crewdson was to be associated with throughout her career.

She supported the non-militant British suffrage movement.

Crewdson had struggled with tuberculosis throughout her life, and died of it on 14 October 1913. A memorial brass to her is in the chapel at Girton College.

Crewdson's successor as bursar, Eleanor Allen, left money to the college to found the Crewdson memorial prize for natural sciences.