Elizabeth Leila Millicent "Sally" Chilver (née Graves; 3 August 1914 – 3 July 2014) was principal of Bedford College, University of London from 1964 to 1971 and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford from 1971 to 1979.
[1] The only daughter of Philip Perceval Graves and his wife Millicent,[2] Elizabeth Chilver was educated at Benenden School and Somerville College, Oxford,[3] where she was a close friend of Inez Pearn (later to become a novelist and marry Stephen Spender and subsequently – following respective divorces – Charles Madge).
During the Second World War she served as a temporary Civil Servant, and after it returned to journalism, writing for the Daily News (1945–47).
In 1995 and 1996 various Festschrift publications appeared to celebrate her work, especially in the field of Cameroon Studies where she was known as "Mama for Story".
[7] She was a niece of Robert Graves and a friend of Inez Holden, who did research into the archives of the Baptist Mission to West Africa for which Chilver made payment arrangements.