Eva Hartree | |
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Born | Eva Rayner 24 December 1873
Stockport, England |
Died | 9 September 1947
Cambridge, England | (aged 73)
Education | Girton College, Cambridge |
Known for | Social activist and politician |
Spouse | William Hartree |
Children | 6, including Douglas Hartree |
Eva Hartree (née Rayner; 24 December 1873 – 9 September 1947) [1] was the first woman to be Mayor of Cambridge, in 1924–25.
Hartree was born Eva Rayner in Stockport in 1873, the daughter of a Jewish doctor, Edwin Rayner and his wife Isabella. [2] [3] [4]
Hartree read natural history at Girton College, Cambridge from 1892, completing tripos in 1895, but not graduating as women did not then proceed to graduation. [2] Also in 1895 she married William Hartree, a lecturer in engineering. [2] She was a suffragist (not a more militant suffragette). [2]
Hartree was a Borough Councillor from 1921 to 1927, during which time she was the first woman to be Mayor of Cambridge in 1924–25. [2] As a result of suffering from Graves' disease, she had a short period off the council, but was again a Councillor from 1929 to 1943. [2]
Hartree was elected President of the National Council of Women of Great Britain in 1933 [5] and in her presidential speech in 1936, she called attention to the rise of Nazism in Germany and the treatment of non Aryan people, [6] called for a committee on broadcasting to be set up so that the organsion could have links with the BBC, and raised concerns over women being excluded from roles in the local government. [7]
She served as Secretary of the Cambridge branch of the League of Nations. [5]
After her husband died in 1943, she resigned from the council and moved to London, to work with refugees. [5]
The Hartrees had six children, only two of whom survived beyond infancy, and only one of those two to adulthood. [2] The surviving son was Douglas Rayner Hartree, who became Plummer Professor of Mathematical Physics. [2] Her niece through her brother Edwin, (who became a senior figure at the National Physical Laboratory) was geologist Dorothy Helen Rayner. [8] [9] The Hartrees lived at 21 Bentley Road, Trumpington. [10] During the time after William Hartree died and Eva Hartree lived in London, the house was occupied by the scientist John Baker. [10]
Her husband died in 1943, and Hartree herself died in 1947. [2]
The Clay Farm community centre in Trumpington has an Eva Hartree Hall. [11] Her photographic portrait in mayoral robes by Olive Edis is held by the National Portrait Gallery. [12]
Eva Hartree | |
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Born | Eva Rayner 24 December 1873
Stockport, England |
Died | 9 September 1947
Cambridge, England | (aged 73)
Education | Girton College, Cambridge |
Known for | Social activist and politician |
Spouse | William Hartree |
Children | 6, including Douglas Hartree |
Eva Hartree (née Rayner; 24 December 1873 – 9 September 1947) [1] was the first woman to be Mayor of Cambridge, in 1924–25.
Hartree was born Eva Rayner in Stockport in 1873, the daughter of a Jewish doctor, Edwin Rayner and his wife Isabella. [2] [3] [4]
Hartree read natural history at Girton College, Cambridge from 1892, completing tripos in 1895, but not graduating as women did not then proceed to graduation. [2] Also in 1895 she married William Hartree, a lecturer in engineering. [2] She was a suffragist (not a more militant suffragette). [2]
Hartree was a Borough Councillor from 1921 to 1927, during which time she was the first woman to be Mayor of Cambridge in 1924–25. [2] As a result of suffering from Graves' disease, she had a short period off the council, but was again a Councillor from 1929 to 1943. [2]
Hartree was elected President of the National Council of Women of Great Britain in 1933 [5] and in her presidential speech in 1936, she called attention to the rise of Nazism in Germany and the treatment of non Aryan people, [6] called for a committee on broadcasting to be set up so that the organsion could have links with the BBC, and raised concerns over women being excluded from roles in the local government. [7]
She served as Secretary of the Cambridge branch of the League of Nations. [5]
After her husband died in 1943, she resigned from the council and moved to London, to work with refugees. [5]
The Hartrees had six children, only two of whom survived beyond infancy, and only one of those two to adulthood. [2] The surviving son was Douglas Rayner Hartree, who became Plummer Professor of Mathematical Physics. [2] Her niece through her brother Edwin, (who became a senior figure at the National Physical Laboratory) was geologist Dorothy Helen Rayner. [8] [9] The Hartrees lived at 21 Bentley Road, Trumpington. [10] During the time after William Hartree died and Eva Hartree lived in London, the house was occupied by the scientist John Baker. [10]
Her husband died in 1943, and Hartree herself died in 1947. [2]
The Clay Farm community centre in Trumpington has an Eva Hartree Hall. [11] Her photographic portrait in mayoral robes by Olive Edis is held by the National Portrait Gallery. [12]