Marjorie Hollond

Marjorie Hollond born Marjarie Tappan (October 31, 1895 – January 30, 1977) was an American born British economist and academic administrator.

Life Hollond was born in New York City in 1895. Her parents were Beatrice (born Haslitt) and Herman Tappan. She had a broad education at Bryn Mawr College from 1911 to 1915 before she specialised and took her doctorate in economics at Columbia University in New York.

After the war she emigrated to England. By 1920 she was in London working at the Galton Laboratory and lecturing part-time at the London School of Economics.

Hollond was director of studies at two Cambridge colleges, Girton and Newnham from 1923 and a fellow in 1924. She became a Cambridge university lecturer of economics in 1926.

Cambridge University was one of the universities that allowed women to attend their courses and to take their exams but it refused to give them an official degree. In the 1920s votes were taken and the motion was not carried. Among those voting against was Henry Arthur Hollond who taught law. She married Henry on 7 September 1929. She gave up the post of director of studies at Newnham in 1933, but she kept the role at Girton. and she was a delegate at a food/ agriculture conference in Washington DC.

Hollond died in 1977 at her home in Cambridge.