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Ethelwyn Bruce Lemon
(1877?-1943)
Educationist and book collector
In 1943 the University Library received from the executors of one
of the University's early
women graduates, Ethelwyn Lemon (MA 1897) nearly 1,000 volumes from
her library on
classical literature, ancient and modern (especially Scottish) history
and palaeography.
A similar number of volumes of fiction and general literature were bequeathed
to the Kirk
o' Field College of the University Settlement.
Ethelwyn Lemon was a native of Northumberland and attended Gateshead
High School. As an undergraduate she served on the Executive Committee
of the SRC for 1895/96, and graduated
from the University in the same Arts class as Arthur
Berriedale Keith, Sir Stewart Macpherson
and Frances Helen Melville. For more than 40 years she was a successful
classical coach in Edinburgh, including among her students the families
of Lord Oxford and Asquith and of the Haldanes of Cloan. For 20 years
she was an Assistant in History at the University, and acted
as an Inspector for the Scottish Education Department.
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