Background
Beatrice Cave-Browne-Cave was the daughter of Sir Thomas Cave-Browne-Cave (1835–1924. See Cave-Browne-Cave baronets for earlier history of the family) and Blanche Matilda Mary Ann (née Milton).
engineer mathematician Aerospace engineer
Beatrice Cave-Browne-Cave was the daughter of Sir Thomas Cave-Browne-Cave (1835–1924. See Cave-Browne-Cave baronets for earlier history of the family) and Blanche Matilda Mary Ann (née Milton).
She was educated at home in Streatham and entered Girton College, Cambridge with her younger sister Frances in 1895.
Gaining a second-class degree in the mathematical tripos, part one (1898), she took part two a year later (1899), and was placed in the third class. After eleven years teaching mathematics to girls at a high school in Clapham in south London, in the years just before the First World War she worked under Professor Karl Pearson in the Galton Laboratory at University College, London. During World War I, she carried out original research for the government on the mathematics of aeronautics which remained classified under the Official Secrets Acting for fifty years.
She retired in 1937, continuing to live in Streatham
Beatrice Mabel Cave-Browne-Cave died on 9 July 1947 at age 73, unmarried.