Harriet Christina Newcomb

Harriet Christina Newcomb (20 May 1854 – 15 April 1942) was an English feminist, activist, and educationist. She was a proponent of progressive education and improved teacher training, in both Britain and Australia, and was an active member of the Women's Freedom League.

While at Maria Grey Training College, Newcomb met Margaret Emily Hodge, with whom she would go on to have a fifty-year friendship. Encouraged by a Hodge family friend, Newcomb and Hodge travelled to Sydney, Australia in 1897, planning to work among the poor. Newcomb, described as having 'a genius for organization', was the school principal and a teacher of French. The school opened with four students, growing to 100 by the end of the first year.

In 1949, Rosine Guiterman published a book about Newcomb and Hodge subtitled 'a short account of two pioneers in education'.