Mary Wilkinson (academic)

She was said to be a role model for working class women with her Yorkshire accent, bold presence and scholarly knowledge.

Wilkinson was born in Keighley, Yorkshire, on 17 September 1909, and educated at Whalley Range High School in Manchester.

[3] Wilkinson briefly worked as an ambulance driver during the Second World War, and taught German at the relocated University College London department in Aberystwyth.

[4] In 1961 she was appointed Professor of German at University College London, delivering her inaugural lecture on 25 October 1962.

[5] She was said to be a role model for working class women with her Yorkshire accent, bold presence and scholarly knowledge.