Background
CARTWRIGHT, Dame Mary Lucy was born on December 17, 1900 in Aynhoe, Northamptonshire. Daughter of Reverend W. D. Cartwright and Lucy H. M. Cartwright.
CARTWRIGHT, Dame Mary Lucy was born on December 17, 1900 in Aynhoe, Northamptonshire. Daughter of Reverend W. D. Cartwright and Lucy H. M. Cartwright.
Godolphin School, Salisbury, and Saint Hugh’s College, Oxford.
Assistant Mistress, Alice Ottley School, Worcester 1923-1924, Wycombe Abbey School, Buckinghamshire. 1924-1927; Yarrow Research Fellow, Girton College 1930-1934. Faculty Assistant lecturer in Mathematics, Cambridge 1933-1935.
Fellow and lecturer, Girton College 1934^19.
Mistress of Girton College 1949-1968, Life Fellow since 1968, University lecturer in Mathematics, Cambridge 1936-1959, Reader in the Theory of Functions 1959-1968, Emeritus Reader since 1968. Consultant on United States Navy Mathematical Research Projects at Stanford and Princeton Universities 1949.
Fellow, Cambridge Philosophical Society. Vice-President London Mathematical Society 1936-1938.
President Mathematical Association 1951-1952.
London Mathematical Society 1961-1963. Visiting Professor Brown University, Providence Rhode Island 1968-1969, Claremont Graduate School 1969, Case Western Reserve University 1970, Poland 1970, University of Wales 1971, Case Western Reserve University Cleveland 1971. Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; Honorary Doctor of Laws (Edinburgh University), Honorary Doctor of Science (Leeds University, Hull University, University of Wales, Oxford and Brown, Rhode Island).
Commander.