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Katharine Wallas

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Furthering her interest in education, Wallas also served as vice-president of the Teachers' Registration Council, honorary treasurer of the Association of University Women Teachers, on the
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established to campaign for women's representation on councils. In 1909, she took over her brother Graham's place on the education committee of the
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on the council. She was deputy chair of the council in 1918/19, the first woman to hold the post, and remained on the council until 1934.
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Wallas had an interest in the role of women in guiding local government's approach to education, serving on a committee of the
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graduates were awarded degrees in recognition of the past learning.
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which set teachers' pay, and on the Unemployment Grants Committee.
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awarded degrees to women, but in 1907 obtained an MA from
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Barnstaple
Devon
Graham Wallas
social psychologist
Maida Vale
Bedford College, London
Girton College, Cambridge
University of Cambridge
Trinity College Dublin
Steamboat ladies
Oxbridge
Notting Hill and Ealing High School
Association of Assistant Mistresses
National Union of Women Workers
London County Council
alderman
Progressive Party
Burnham committee
Commander of the Order of the British Empire





Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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