Grace Annie Lockhart
Grace Annie Lockhart was the first woman in the British Empire to receive a Bachelors degree. She formally enrolled in Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada in 1874 and graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Science and English Literature onMay 1875. Although her later life was spent in a more conventional role, as the wife of the Methodist minister J.L. Dawson, Lockharts academic achievement as a student provided clear evidence of the justice of womens claim to full rights in the field of higher education.
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