Isabel Margaret Fidler

Isabel Margaret Fidler (21 March 1869 – 5 June 1952) was an Australian academic and advocate for women's education. She held various roles at the University of Sydney: principally tutor to women, president and vice-president of the Sydney University Women's Association (later known as the Women's Union). She also represented the interests of women in education on the education committee of the National Council of Women and at international conferences. She has been recognised by the university with a room in Manning House, and a nearby lawn named in her honour. She was made a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1939.

Early life and education Fidler was born on 21 March 1869 in Wollongong, the second child of Alice Maude Bedford and William Fidler, a Wesleyan minister. She was educated at Emily Baxter's Argyle School in Surry Hills, where she won academic prizes.

Fidler was employed by the University of Sydney as "tutor to women students" in 1900. Outside the university, Fidler was a long term committee member of education committee of the National Council of Women, and was involved in founding the Good Film League and the Board of Social Study and Training. and presented to the university by a group of subscribers in honour of her contributions. It was unveiled in 1931, and hangs in Manning House.

After her retirement the reading room in Manning House was named the Isabel Fidler Room.

A holiday home associated with the University Settlement was also named after Fidler on her retirement from that organisation in 1945.

After her death, a memorial garden was created in her honour, consisting of an oval lawn with a rising embankment designed by Professor Denis Winston.