Kitty Anderson (headmistress)

[1] Katherine Anderson was born on 4 July 1903, Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, the eldest child and only daughter of three children born to John Herbert Anderson, a chartered accountant, and his wife, Lizzie (née Dawson).

In 1930, she returned to Royal Holloway as a Christie scholar and received a PhD in 1933 in Elizabethan history, 'The treatment of vagrancy and the relief of the poor and destitute in the Tudor period, based upon the local records of London to 1552 and Hull to 1576'.

[5] On her retirement she became chairman of the Girls' Public Day School Trust.

[1] Esther Rantzen paid tribute to Anderson when she appeared on the BBC's radio programme, Desert Island Discs.

[citation needed] Anderson died on 15 July 1979 in Northallerton, Yorkshire.