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Papers of Honoria Ford, 1948 - 2014

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Ford 2

Scope and Contents

File contains the following:
1) Brief biography of Honoria Hetherington, née Ford, compiled by her granddaughter Jane Robson, née Macdonald, 2014;
2) Photocopy of Girton College Register entry for Honoria Ford, 1948;
3) Photocopy of three page typescript reminiscences written by Honoria Hetherington [circa 1970], entitled ‘Ten Terms at Girton’, in which she mentions the following: transport by horse cab and bicycle; Katharine Jex-Blake and male classics teachers who came to Girton to teach; the Fire Brigade; domestic arrangements, rules and regulations generally and rules about male guests; Sunday lunch at her Aunt Adela’s house; playing water polo [?]; several Girton friends with whom she had a ‘Reading Party at Trimingham’ (Irene Shove, Dora Mason, Alice Judson and Elma Muir); and her room at the ‘end of Hospital Wing on the first floor’. [Honoria wrote these reminiscences as part of a fuller memoir when she was nearly ninety, registered blind and with hands too arthritic to write legibly. She taught herself to touch type and practised by writing the memoir. A few corrections were added by her daughter.]


Dates

  • Creation: 1948 - 2014

Creator

Biographical / Historical

Honoria Ford was born at Highgate, London, the daughter of Arthur Ranken Ford, solicitor and Laura Kensington. She was part of an extended family committed to educating their daughters: she was the younger sister of Cicely Ford (Girton 1894) and a niece of Adela Kensington (Girton 1885, later Mrs Adam, mother of Barbara Wootton, Girton 1915). Honoria was part of the first intake to Wycombe Abbey School at the age of fifteen. She then studied Classics at Girton from 1900-03 and received a BA from Trinity College Dublin in 1905. She took the Oxford Diploma in Theory, History and Practice of Education in 1904 and taught at Winchester High School for a year before marrying Roger Gaskell Hetherington in 1906. In 1915 she joined the North Islington School for mothers, ‘acting rather like a Health Visitor does now’; she was a governor of two schools in the 1940s and 1950s; and she undertook Care Committee work at a school for physically disabled children.

Extent

1 file(s) : Paper

Language of Materials

English

Date information

DateText: Photocopies made 2014.

Originator(s)

Hetherington, Lady Honoria, 1881-1972, née Ford, teacher and careworker

Finding aid date

2014-11-05 10:19:50+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Girton College Archive Repository

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