Lady Margaret Hall (LMH) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England,located on a bank of the River Cherwell at Norham Gardens in north Oxford and adjacent to the University Parks. The college is more formally known under its current royal charter as "The Principal and Fellows of the College of the Lady Margaret in the University of Oxford".
Dame Jane Alison Glover is a British conductor and musicologist.
John Wordsworth was an English Anglican bishop and classical scholar. He was Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford from 1883 to 1885,and Bishop of Salisbury from 1885 to 1911.
Dame Frances Anne Cairncross,is a British economist,journalist and academic. She is a senior fellow at the School of Public Policy,UCLA.
Dame Kay Elizabeth Davies is a British geneticist. She is Dr Lee's Professor of Anatomy at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Hertford College,Oxford. She is director of the Medical Research Council (MRC) functional genetics unit,a governor of the Wellcome Trust,a director of the Oxford Centre for Gene Function,and a patron and Senior Member of Oxford University Scientific Society. Her research group has an international reputation for work on Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). In the 1980s,she developed a test which allowed for the screening of foetuses whose mothers have a high risk of carrying DMD.
Dame Elizabeth Wordsworth was founding Principal of Lady Margaret Hall,Oxford and she funded and founded St Hugh's College. She was also an author,sometimes writing under the name Grant Lloyd.
Dame Emily Penrose,was an ancient historian and principal of three early women's university colleges in the United Kingdom:Bedford College from 1893 until 1898,Royal Holloway College from 1898 until 1907,and Somerville College,Oxford University from 1907 until 1926. She was the first woman to achieve First Class honours in Classics at Oxford University,and was instrumental in securing the admission of women as full members of the university in 1920. She became Oxford's first Dame in 1927.
Eleanor Constance Lodge was a British academic who served as vice-principal of Lady Margaret Hall,Oxford from 1906 to 1921 and then principal of Westfield College,Hampstead,in the University of London,from 1921 to 1931.
Frances P. Ruane,,is an Irish academic economist and former director of the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) in Dublin,Ireland 2006−2015. She is recognised for her research on FDI and its effect on host economies. She has also been a regular appointee to State and public policy boards and committees,including most recently acting as Chair of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland (2016-2019) and the National Competitiveness Council.
Dame Janet Maria Vaughan,Mrs Gourlay,was a British physiologist,academic,and academic administrator. She researched haematology and radiation pathology. From 1945 to 1967,she served as Principal of Somerville College,Oxford.
Dame Margaret Elizabeth Turner-Warwick was a British medical doctor and thoracic specialist. She was the first woman president of the Royal College of Physicians (1989–1992) and,later,chairman of the Royal Devon and Exeter Health Care NHS Trust (1992–1995).
Dame Anne Marie Rafferty FRCN is a British nurse,academic and researcher. She is the professor of nursing policy and the former dean of the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing,Midwifery and Palliative Care at King's College London. She served as President of the Royal College of Nursing from 2019 to 2021. She was nominated for a life peerage on 20 December 2024.
Dame Madeleine Julia Atkins,is a British academic administrator,scholar of education,and former teacher. Since 2018,she has served as the 9th President of Lucy Cavendish College,Cambridge. She was formerly vice-chancellor of Coventry University,and the Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (2014–2018).
Dame Sally Mapstone is a British academic who has been Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St Andrews since 2016.
Dame Lucy Stuart Sutherland was an Australian-born British historian and head of Lady Margaret Hall,Oxford.
Dame Sarah Elizabeth Worthington,is a British legal scholar,professor at LSE Law School,barrister,and Deputy High Court Judge in the Chancery Division,specialising in company law,commercial law,and equity. From 2011 to 2022,she was the Downing Professor of the Laws of England at the University of Cambridge. She is Treasurer of the British Academy and a trustee of the British Museum.
Dame Frances Violet Gardner was an English cardiologist. She introduced angiocardiography to Britain in 1946 and worked at the Royal Free Hospital from 1943 to 1975.
Anne Mary Hudson,was a British literary historian and academic. She was a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall,Oxford from 1963 to 2003,and Professor of Medieval English at the University of Oxford from 1989 to 2003.
Mary Longstaff Jacobus,is a British literary scholar.
