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Henrietta White

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White became the Principal of Alexandra College in 1890. She worked in the position until 1932 when she retired. During her leadership Alexandra College became one of the places where a woman could get an education towards a college degree. There were multiple lectureships endowed - these included
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White understood that a college education was not the only option for women in Ireland and once the decision was made to grant women equal access to the existing colleges in Ireland, and not just to separate women's colleges. Alexandra college dealt with some of those other options. She created
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White was one of the women in Dublin advocating for university education for women. She believed in the idea of separate women's colleges and hoped to have Alexandra College become one such. She gave evidence to the Robertson commission about this on 27 September 1901.
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where she was a regular speaker at the conferences. She began the Alexandra College Guild in 1897 for both students and alumni. White also founded a hostel in Dublin in 1913 for girls working in the city and later, during the
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from 1915 to 1930. White was on the viceregal committee on intermediate education in 1919 and from 1921 to 1922 she was on the central committee on women's training and employment.
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she ran one for Belgian refugees. She founded the Soldiers’ Wives Club in 1915 and organised people to knit socks for the soldiers.
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to allow women to get an education in the horticulture school. In 1903 he agreed to allow two women a year to attend.
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She was also interested on the right of women to work and ensure they had appropriate rights. She was a member of the
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Despite all the work on education and working women's rights, White's real love was horticulture. Her specialty was
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Born Henrietta Margaret White in 1856, she was the oldest of Henry Charles White's four children. Her father was
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secretarial, housecraft and teacher training departments for both secondary and third level qualifications.
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During her career she was involved in the various appropriate organisations. She was president of the
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In Nature's Name: An Anthology of Women's Writing and Illustration, 1780-1930
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despite her campaign to admit women to lay offices in the Church of Ireland.
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Have Women Made a Difference?: Women in Irish Universities, 1850-2010
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In 1905 White was only the second woman to be awarded an honorary
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A Protestant and a conservative, the archbishop of Dublin Dr
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in Ireland from 1925 to 1929. She was also involved with the
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National Union of Women Workers of Great Britain and Ireland
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Female education in Ireland 1700-1900: Minerva or Madonna
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who is creditted with consolidating White's achievement.
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Politics, Society and the Middle Class in Modern Ireland
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of Queen's Co. and Justice of the peace for King's Co. (
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The Opening of University Education to women in Ireland
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art history in 1895 and Irish civilization in 1902.
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Alexandra College
Justice of the peace
Laois
Deputy lieutenant
Offaly
Alexandra College
Newnham College, Cambridge
International Federation of University Women
Irish Schoolmistresses Association
Irish Registration Council
National Union of Women Workers of Great Britain and Ireland
First World War
John Gregg
pelargonium
Royal (later National) Botanic Gardens
Frederick W. Moore
Legum Doctor
University of Dublin
William Orpen
Katherine Preston
"National Archives: Census of Ireland 1911"







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