Eva Hartree (née Rayner; 24 December 1873 – 9 September 1947)[1] was the first woman to be Mayor of Cambridge, in 1924–25.
[2] Hartree was elected President of the National Council of Women of Great Britain in 1933[5] and in her presidential speech in 1936, she called attention to the rise of Nazism in Germany and the treatment of non Aryan people,[6] called for a committee on broadcasting to be set up so that the organsion could have links with the BBC, and raised concerns over women being excluded from roles in the local government.
[2] The surviving son was Douglas Rayner Hartree, who became Plummer Professor of Mathematical Physics.
[2] Her niece through her brother Edwin, (who became a senior figure at the National Physical Laboratory) was geologist Dorothy Helen Rayner.
[2] The Clay Farm community centre in Trumpington has an Eva Hartree Hall.