Dorothea Beale
Dorothea Beale LLD was a suffragist, educational reformer, author and Principal of the Cheltenham Ladies College.
She was born onMarch 1831 at 41 Bishopsgate Street Within, London, was fourth child and third daughter of the eleven children of Miles Beale, a surgeon, of a Gloucestershire family, who took an active interest in educational and social questions. His wife, Dorothea Margaret Complin, of Huguenot extraction, was first cousin to Caroline Frances Cornwallis, to early intercourse with whom Dorothea owed much. Educated till the age of thirteen partly at home and partly at a school at Stratford, Essex, Dorothea then attended lectures at Gresham College and at the Crosby Hall Literary Institution, and developed an aptitude for mathematics. In 1847, she went with two older sisters to Mrs. Brays fashionable school for English girls in Paris, where she remained till the revolution of 1848 brought the school to an end. In 1848, Dorothea and her sisters were among the earliest students at the newly opened Queens College, Harley Street. Their companions included Miss Buss and Adelaide Procter.
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