Christina Keith (12 January 1889 - 1963) was a pioneering Scottish academic and author who travelled to France towards the end of the First World War as a lecturer to the troops.
Even more unusual was her decision to study the traditionally male subject of Classics at Edinburgh University despite not even knowing the Greek alphabet.
Christina then spent three years studying at Newnham College, Cambridge, and was placed in the First Class in both parts of the Classical Tripos.
Given a few days’ leave, she and a female companion were among the first women to travel across devastated battlefields still littered with the debris of war once the guns had fallen silent.
The education scheme was disbanded in spring 1919, and Christina returned to England and took up a new position as Senior Classics Tutor in St Hilda’s College, Oxford.