1. Alice Jacqueline Perry was one of the first women in Europe to graduate with a degree in engineering.
12 Facts About Alice Perry
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Alice Perry's father was the county surveyor in Galway West and co-founded the Galway Electric Light Company.
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Alice Perry's uncle, John Perry, was a Fellow of the Royal Society and invented the navigational gyroscope.
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Alice Perry graduated with first class honours in civil engineering in 1906.
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Alice Perry was described as "the most distinguished mathematician of her time in the college".
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All of the Alice Perry sisters were involved in the suffrage campaign in Galway.
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Alice Perry remained in this position for five or six months until a permanent appointment was made.
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Alice Perry was an unsuccessful candidate for the permanent position and for a similar opportunity to be a surveyor in Galway East.
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Alice Perry remains the only woman to have been a county surveyor in Ireland.
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Alice Perry met and married John Shaw on 30 September 1916.
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Alice Perry retired from her inspector's position in 1921 and became interested in poetry, first publishing in 1922.
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Until her death in 1969, Alice Perry worked within the Christian Science movement as a poetry editor and practitioner, publishing seven books of poetry.