Mary Ellen Rickett

Mary Ellen Rickett (4 March 1861 – 20 March 1925) was a British mathematician who lectured in mathematics at Newnham College, University of Cambridge for more than twenty years. She was also the Vice-Principal of Old Hall from 1895 until her death in 1925. She was the first woman to win Bedford College's Gold Medal when she graduated with her bachelor's degree, and the first Wrangler of Newnham College.

Life Rickett was born on 4 March 1861. She was educated by private tutors, and then at a private school in Brighton, and at Priory School in Dover.

She studied at Newnham College beginning in 1882, and took both the Classical Tripos in 1884 and the Mathematical Tripos in 1885 and 1886. In 1893, she was elected one of the first thirty associates of the college. Rickett retired in 1908, and died on 20 March 1925, aged 64.