Helen Darbishire, CBE, FBA (26 February 1881 – 11 March 1961) was an English literary scholar, who was Principal of Somerville College, Oxford, from 1931 until her retirement in 1945.
After being a visiting lecturer at Royal Holloway College, she returned to Somerville as a tutor in English in 1908.
In 1931 she succeeded Margery Fry as principal of Somerville, resigning her university lectureship (though continuing to teach and lecture).
Darbishire remained principal of Somerville until her retirement in 1945, overseeing considerable building expansion at the college.
[4] In the 1955 Birthday Honours, she was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).