Ethel Hurlbatt (1 July 1866 Bickley, Kent – 22 March 1934 Tours, France) was Principal of Bedford College, University of London, and later Warden of Royal Victoria College, the women's college of McGill University, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, which had opened in 1899.

[1] She was educated privately and then read modern history at Somerville College, Oxford, from 1888 to 1892 gaining a second.

[1] After an extra year at Oxford doing work in the Bodleian Library, in 1892 she became principal of Aberdare Hall, a women student's only hall at Cardiff University College, now Cardiff University.

In 1898 she became principal of Bedford College but resigned in 1906 due to ill health.

Her service to the college was recognized in 1930 when she received an honorary LLD from McGill.