Mary Coate

Mary Coate FSA FRHistS (1886 – 1972) was an English historian of the seventeenth century who contributed to widening participation at Oxford, where she taught for almost thirty years.

[3] She taught history at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford from 1918 to 1947, being elected Fellow there in 1922.

[4][5] In 1933 she produced her most notable work, Cornwall in the Great Civil War and Interregnum.

[9] Mary Coate supported her sister Winifred Coate's Jerusalem Girls' College, recruiting Oxford graduates to teach there and working on a scheme for Jerusalem Girls' College graduates to continue their studies at Lady Margaret Hall.

[10] In 1935, Coate tutored Merze Tate in support of her second attempt to gain admission to the B.Litt program at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, who therefore became the first African-American woman to attend the University of Oxford.