[2] In 1920, when the statutes were changed, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree and the Oxford MA.
[3] Gwyer then moved into overseeing female students at university, an area where she would spend the rest of her career.
[3] She was the first principal of a women's college to be already a member of Convocation when she took office, owing to her own education at the University of Oxford.
[4]: 166 During her career as principal she oversaw the incorporation and drawing up of new statutes at St Hugh's, a process undertaken by the Oxford women's colleges in the 1920s in response to the Royal Commission of 1919.
[2] She lived for the rest of her life in Stokenchurch, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, but was a regular visitor to St Hugh's.