Mary Simpson
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| File:Mary (Constance) Simpson.jpgMary (Constance) Simpson.jpg Mary Simpson at EMS colloquium in St Andrews in 1926 | |
| Born | 7 July 1901 Gateshead-on-Tyne, England |
| 💀Died | 11 November 1985 Plymouth, England11 November 1985 |
| 🏳️ Nationality | English |
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Mary Simpson (Gateshead-on-Tyne, England, 7 July 1901 - 11 November 1985) was an English mathematician who lived in Newport, Fife in Scotland.[1]
Biography
Mary Simpson was born to parents Joseph and Ann Simpson on 7 July 1901, she was the third of four siblings, Eleanor, Norah and Joseph Simpson.[2]
Simpson started her higher education at Edinburgh University in 1919 (only 27 years after the first female student studied at Edinburgh University[3]), where she graduated with a BSc in mathematics in 1922 and then continued her studies at Edinburgh University where she graduated with a first-class MA (a Scottish undergraduate degree, equivalent to a BA in other countries).[1] This was unusual for the time, as the ordinary route would be for students to take the MA and then the more specialised BSc.
During her studies for her master’s degree, she was required to choose an ‘ordinary’ subject, and for this she chose English. After her graduation from the university, she joined the Edinburgh Mathematical Society (founded in 1883).[4]
Soon after joining the EMS, she was appointed to a position in University College in Dundee (which was a part of the University of St Andrews at the time), she remained in this position from 1924–1935.[5][6] For a female maths lecturer, this was quite an unusual length of tenure at the time, as many women had temporary lecturing positions during World War I, but lost these positions when the men returned from war. Between World War I and II, it was common for women to move between short-term posts, which makes Simpson's length of tenure quite unusual.
In July 1935, she married David Dempster in Swindon, Wiltshire, England (Found in England & Wales, Civil Registration marriage index 1916-2005).[7] It is unknown whether they had children. She was listed in the 1939 England and Wales Register[8] with an occupation of "unpaid domestic duty", suggesting that she had become a housewife.
She died on 11 November 1985 in Plymouth, England at the age of 84.[1]
Education
- 1906-1908 attended Newport public school in Fife
- 1908-1912 attended Portobello H. G. School, a high school in Edinburgh[9]
- 1912-1915 Broughton J. S. Centre
- October 1919- July 1922 Edinburgh University BSc
- October 1922- July 1923 Edinburgh University MA
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Mary Simpson", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
- ↑ 1911 England Census, (accessed 24/07/2023 on ancestry)
- ↑ "Women". collections.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-07-24.
- ↑ "About the Edinburgh Mathematical Society | Edinburgh Mathematical Society". www.ems.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-07-01.
- ↑ 'University and Educational Intelligence'[1], Nature, 18 October 1924, p592 (accessed 24/07/2024)
- ↑ She is listed in the Dundee directory [2] from 1935-1936, but not in the directory for 1938-1939 [3]
- ↑ www.ancestry.co.uk https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/8753/images/ons_m19353az-1420?pId=44740250. Retrieved 2023-07-05. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ www.ancestry.co.uk https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/61596/images/tna_r39_6780_6780b_007?pId=29329748. Retrieved 2023-07-05. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ "Contact us | Portobello High School". Retrieved 2023-07-01.
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