In manner she appeared shy and withdrawn ... but this veiled both kindness and a humorous regard for life’s problems.

Strachey played a leading role in the campaign for degrees for women, but it would not succeed during her time at Cambridge.

[3] "As Principal, Pernel Strachey showed an acute ability, deceptively hidden, for management, fund-raising and an awareness of every aspect of college life.

She possessed the easy but polished politeness of an earlier and more formal era which reflected the upper class moeurs of her family – and which was much missed by many when she left.

[4] After retirement in 1941, Strachey hoped to find time for research in her field of Anglo-Norman literature, but increasing ill health, and the pressure of wartime, did not allow this.