13 Facts About Ethel Hurlbatt

Ethel Hurlbatt was an English educator and a promoter of women's entrance into the professions.

Ethel Hurlbatt is recognised for her work in women's education combined with loyalty to the institutions she worked for.

Ethel Hurlbatt was Principal of Bedford College, University of London, and later Warden of Royal Victoria College, the women's college of McGill University, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, which had opened in 1899.

Ethel Hurlbatt's parents were Charles Hurlbatt, a mining engineer, and Sophia Margaret Hurlbatt.

Ethel Hurlbatt was educated privately and then read modern history at Somerville College, Oxford, from 1888 to 1892 gaining second class.

Ethel Hurlbatt did however receive an honorary MA from the University of Oxford in 1925.

Ethel Hurlbatt was honorary secretary for the Association for Promoting the Education of Women, was a member of the Cardiff Charity Organisation Society and her name her name features in documents of the Welsh Union of the Women's Liberal Association.

In 1898, Ethel Hurlbatt became principal of the London women's college, Bedford College, but resigned in 1906 due to ill health.

From 1907 until her retirement in 1929, Ethel Hurlbatt was Warden of Royal Victoria College in Montreal, Canada, where she was "resident tutor" of history.

In Montreal, Ethel Hurlbatt was involved with many clubs and philanthropic ventures, including the women's commission of the Comite France-Amerique de Montreal [fr], the local branch the Alliance Francaise, the Montreal Women's Canadian Club and the Art Association of Montreal.

Ethel Hurlbatt was awarded the Officier de l'Instruction Publique in 1918.

Ethel Hurlbatt maintained her membership in the University Women's Club of London during her time living in Canada.

Ethel Hurlbatt linked Canadian college women to British women's movements.