Gladys Gregory

Gladys Caroline Gregory (19 May 1899–6 November 1981) was one of two women to share the accolade of first woman actuary in the United Kingdom, the other being Dorothy Spiers, née Davis.

[3][4] In November 1919 The Institute of Actuaries voted to admit women on the same conditions as men.

[6] Passing the exams was clearly a shared endeavour - Dorothy and Gladys “coached” and did their “very hard swotting” together, for “…the ‘stiffest’ tests in mathematics”, qualifying in less than the “usual four years”.

[7][8] In 1923 Gregory was the more prominent of the pair: at 24 she was two years younger than her counterpart; her final examination was said to have been “faultless”, andshe would have come overall first had the results been ranked.

[7]  Writing in Good Housekeeping in October 1923, she commended the profession to well-educated girls, prepared to work hard and give up their evenings to study.