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Born in Wimbledon, she was educated at Wimbledon High School and Newnham College, Cambridge, where in 1895 she received first class honours in the Natural Science tripos.
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Gertrude Elles
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She worked with Ethel Wood and Charles Lapworth. Her work on the genera of graptolites from North Wales and the Skiddaw Slates of the Lake District, England and from the Wenlock Shales of the Welsh borders eventually led to Elles" receiving the Lyell Fund of the Geological Society of London in 1900, but was unable to collect it since women were barred from meetings She was awarded the Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire for work with the Red Cross during the First World War.
She was president of the British Association in 1923.
