Barbara Strang née Barbara Mary Hope Carr later Lady Strang (20 April 1925 – 11 April 1982) was a British English language scholar.
[1] She married Colin Strang who was a lecturer and the heir apparent to his father's barony.
She established her name when her first publication Modern English Structure in 1962 became a standard work.
Two years later she became the first Professor of English Language and General Linguistics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1964.
[2] Strang died suddenly of a brain hemorrhage at her home in Morpeth in 1982.