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Miss M. C. Dawes

For the first time in this country a lady has obtained the Degree of Master of Arts. The lady in question is Miss Mary Clara Dawes, daughter of the Rev. John S. Dawes, D.D., of Surbiton, S.W., and is twenty-two years old. Miss Dawes passed the Matriculation Examination in Honours, January, 1879, and in July of the same year the Intermediate Examination for B.A., obtaining First Class, and gaining the Second Gilchrist Exhibition, and also taking Honours in German; for these examinations she was entirely prepared at home. Also in June of the same year she obtained a Scholarship for Girton College, Cambridge, where she entered the following October. At the end of the usual Academic residence of three years she passed out in Honours in the Classical Tripos. After her Cambridge course she resumed her studies for the London University at Bedford College, London, and in October, 1883, passed the final B.A. Examination, being placed in the First Division, and gaining Honours in Classics and German. At the examination just concluded she was placed fourth on the list of Masters of Arts for the year who have taken the Degree in the first branch of Examination, that is, in Classics, with Ancient and Modern History: -Our portrait is from a photograph by Mayall, 164, New Bond Street. [102]

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