Winifred West
English-born Australian educationist (1881–1971)
Winifred Mary West CBE (21 December 1881 – 26 September 1971) was an English-born Australian educationist.
Early life and education
Born at Frensham in Surrey to schoolmaster Charles William West and Fanny, née Sturt, West spent her early life there and in Farnham, where the family moved in 1891. She attended Queen Anne's School in Caversham, Berkshire, from 1894 to 1900 having received a scholarship, before studying medieval and modern languages at Newnham College, Cambridge, from 1900 to 1903. She played hockey for Cambridge and won a hockey blue.
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