Winifred Davies
English schoolteacher and rock climber
About Winifred Davies
Lived 1870 – 1939 (aged 68–69).
Winifred Ellen Davies, later Mrs. George D. Abraham (died 1939) was an English schoolteacher and rock climber.
Life Winifred Davies was the daughter of David Davies and a niece of the sculptor William Davies (Mynorydd). She was a cousin of the climber Owen Wynne Jones, who trained her to climb. She was educated at the University of Wales and the University of London, where she graduated in 1891 with a first-class degree in botany. After a year at the University of Cambridge, she then became headmistress of Carlisle High School and later science mistress at the Mary Datchelor School.
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Who was Winifred Davies?
English schoolteacher and rock climber
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Winifred Davies was born in 1870.
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Winifred Davies died in 1939.
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