Miss Bertha S. Phillpotts, 0.B.£., jLitt.p., Principal of Westfield College (University of London), has been appointed Mistress of Girton. College, Cambridge, from July next. As Miss Phillpotts is unable to undertake the duties till 1922, Miss 'K. Jex-Blake, the retiring Mistress, has consented to hold! office "until then.
Miss Phillpotts is a daughter of Dr. J. S. Phillpotts, for many {years headmaster of Bedford Grammar School. She was educated at, Girton (Pfeiffer Scliolar 1898-1901), and was placed in the first class of the Modern Languages Tripos in 1901. Miss Phillpotts has devoted: herself to the study of Teutonic, and more particularly Scandinavin, literature, early history, and antiquiries. She held successively at Girton the Pfeiffer Studentship for Research and the Librarianship, and from 1909 to 1913 lectured at the college. From 1913 to 1916 she held the Lady Carlisle Resident Fellowship at Somerville College, Oxford. She was attached to the British Legation at Stockholm from 1916 to 1919, and for the last twa years has been Principal of West-field College.
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