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Missionary and Westfied Principal

30/8/2020

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On This Day 31 August 1917 Agnes de Selincourt died
Agnes de Selincourt (1872–1917), missionary and college administrator, was born at Alverstoke, Leigham Court Road, Streatham.

Educated at Notting Hill High School and Girton College Cambridge and Sommerville College Oxford.

Worked as a Missionary in Bombay and then first principal of the Lady Muir Memorial College, Allahabad.
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In September 1913, just turned forty-one, Agnes De Selincourt became principal of Westfield College, Hampstead, University of London.
'To maintain connection with the family' her brother Professor Ernest De Selincourt (1870–1943) was on her death immediately elected to the Westfield council and served until 1937.

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