Rose Graham CBE FSA FRHistS (16 August 1875 – 29 July 1963) was a British religious historian.
Rose Graham | |
|---|---|
| Born | 16 August 1875 London, England |
| Died | 29 July 1963 (aged 87) London, England |
Life
editGraham was born in London in 1875 to W. Edgar Graham and Jane (née Newton).[1] She was educated at Notting Hill High School and Somerville College, Oxford.[2]
After graduating, Graham embarked on a research career that saw her producing a series of books on church history, the first of which was a study of St Gilbert of Sempringham, founder of a double monastery.[3] Graham was encouraged by her mother and with her she travelled in France to research her second book. She wasn't able to gain a degree until 1920 from Oxford.[4] She was awarded a Doctor of Letters (DLitt) degree by Oxford in 1929.[1] She was made an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College in 1933, and worked as a member of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments from 1934 to 1963.[1]
In 1945 she became the first female president of the British Archaeological Association which she held until 1951 when she served on as vice president until 1963.[2] She had also been elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA) and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).[1]
She died on 29 July 1963.[1] Her early work on ecclesiastical history is seen as a great foundation for later scholarship on women's history.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e "Graham, Rose, (1875–29 July 1963), Hon. General Editor, Canterbury and York Society, 1924–58". Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2007. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
- ^ a b Emily J. Horning, ‘Graham, Rose (1875–1963)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, September 2010 accessed 7 September 2015
- ^ Graham, Rose. S. Gilbert of Sempringham and the Gilbertines: a history of the only English monastic order (London: Elliott Stock, 1903)
- ^ _____, "Degrees conferred at Oxford". Yorkshire Post, 15 October 1920. 5.
- ^ Berg, Maxine (1996). A woman in history : Eileen Power, 1889-1940. Cambridge [etc.]: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521568528.