Ethel Strudwick

Ethel Strudwick CBE (3 April 1880 – 15 August 1954) was a British headteacher and Liberal Party activist.

[1] Strudwick left the college in 1913, when she was appointed as headteacher of the City of London School for Girls.

[1] In 1927, Strudwick beat 45 other candidates to be appointed as headteacher of St Paul's Girls' School.

[2] Strudwick became increasingly involved with national bodies, serving as president of the Association of Headmistresses from 1931 to 1933, founding president of the British Federation of Business and Professional Women in 1937, and joined the council of the Girls' Public Day School Trust in 1948.

[1] In 1945, she sat on a government committee of inquiry into the future role of women in the foreign service, chosen because she was known not to hold strongly feminist views.