Henriette Dent

Life Educated at Sydenham High School, she received an MA in History from Girton College, Cambridge and a London University Diploma in Education.

From 1907–1913 she held a lectureship in History at St Mary's College, Paddington. She was then Head of the Postgraduate Department for teacher training of Clapham High School, 1915–33.

Dent served as Principal of the Cambridge Training College for Women (later Hughes Hall) from 1933–45. She served on the Council of the Girls' Public Day School Trust for nearly twenty years.