13 Facts About Dora Metcalf

Dora Stuart Primrose Metcalf was an India-born Irish entrepreneur, mathematician and computing pioneer.

Dora Metcalf was born to Irish parents in Madras in India.

Dora Metcalf was the oldest of three children born to Eleanor Emily Ernestine nee Burton was born on 1868 and and George Percy Greene, the Superintendent of the Madras Survey.

Dora Metcalf attended Bedford High School in Bedfordshire before winning a scholarship to take an external degree with the University of London aged 15, gaining her Bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1911 aged 19.

Dora Metcalf initially became a teacher as Junior Mathematics and Riding Mistress at Allenswood Academy in south London.

Dora Metcalf regularly kept in touch with Cass's family until she met her future husband in 1932.

Dora Metcalf had met Haughton, a well connected Orangeman and Freemason and a leader of the Irish linen industry at Matilda Knowles' home.

Dora Metcalf created an international market for information services using comptometers and tabulators; her largest client was the Irish Hospitals' Sweepstake.

Dora Metcalf married Royal Navy officer Commander John Savile Dent Metcalf DSC, RD, MiD in August 1935 and was then known as Dora Metcalf.

Dora Metcalf was in charge of managing the supply contract but ill health forced her to leave this work in 1942.

Dora Metcalf was responsible for introducing the first electronic computer into Ireland in 1957 selling it to Michael Joe Costello of Irish Sugar.

John and Dora Metcalf enjoyed fishing for salmon and trout and in order to pursue this hobby on their retirement they relocated from London to Loch Morar, where they stayed until 1970 following which they spent their final years in Otley in Yorkshire.

Dora Metcalf died in 1982 aged 90 and was buried in the Lawnswood Cemetery and Crematorium in Leeds in West Yorkshire.