Alice Embleton

[2] She used the £150 scholarship to work at the Balfour Laboratory at Newnham College, Cambridge, followed by a further period of study at the Sorbonne in Paris.

[4] In 1903, she was appointed honorary zoologist to the Board of Agriculture, and won the Royal Society's Mackinnon studentship for research into Biological Sciences.

[6] Her paper, delivered on 4 June 1903, was entitled: "Anatomy and Development of a Hymeropterous Parasite of a Scaly Insect (Lecanium Hemisphoericum)".

[11] In later life she conducted cancer research at the Royal College of Science in South Kensington.

[12] Embleton was connected with a number of noted suffragists, including Evelina Haverfield, Vera Holme, and Celia Wray.