Old records mostly wrote about men: kings, lords and priests. That doesn't mean women weren't here! These are women connected to Harrow that we know about. Can you find out about more?
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Queen Adelaide
Lived here
Queen consort of King William IV. Bentley Priory in Stanmore was her final home, and she died there in 1849.
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Elizabeth Wordsworth
1840–1932
Born here
The founding Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford; she also funded and founded St Hugh's College. She was born at Harrow on the Hill in 1840.
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Isabella Beeton
1836–1865
Lived here
A journalist, editor and writer known as Mrs Beeton, whose first book was Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management (1861). After she married she moved to a house in Pinner, and in the winter of 1858–59 she made soup for the poor of Pinner.
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Maud Watson
1864–1946
Born here
A tennis player and the first female Wimbledon champion. She was born in Harrow, the daughter of a local vicar.
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Catherine Marshall
1880–1961
Born here
A suffragist, and a campaigner against conscription during the First World War. She was born in Harrow on the Hill, where her father taught mathematics at Harrow School.
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Ivy Compton-Burnett
1884–1969
Born here
A novelist who won the 1955 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for her novel Mother and Son. She was born in Pinner in 1884.
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Rebecca Clarke
1886–1979
Born here
A classical composer and viola player, and one of the first female professional orchestral players in London. She was born in Harrow.
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Sylvia Townsend Warner
1893–1978
Born here
A novelist, poet and musicologist, who wrote the novel Lolly Willowes (1926). She was born at Harrow on the Hill, where her father was a house-master at Harrow School.