Elsie Matilda Maude Whetnall (24 December 1897, in Isleworth, Middlesex – c. 1998) was a British analytic philosopher.
She was educated at Southall County Secondary School, then at Bedford College, London University, where she obtained a first-class degree in 1921.
[1] Whetnall was an external doctoral student of Susan Stebbing, at Bedford College where she wrote her thesis on the theory of symbols.
[4] After completing her doctorate in 1929, Whetnall subsequently held a number of teaching posts: first at Kingsley School, Hampstead, then as a lecturer at Huguenot College, University of South Africa.
[6] In 1925, she became one of very few women to be elected to the membership of the Aristotelian Society[7] and was an active member and frequent panel discussant in the company of other notable panellists including G.E.