13 Facts About Ethel Newbold

Ethel Newbold was the first woman awarded the Guy Medal in Silver in 1928.

Ethel Newbold's mother was born in California and her parents married in Mexico.

Ethel Newbold's older brother Charles Joseph Newbold was a noted rugby player and chemist.

Ethel Newbold was educated at first by a governess and then won a scholarship offered by the Girls' Public Day School Company to attend Tunbridge Wells High School.

Ethel Newbold won a mathematics prize and was awarded an open scholarship for three years at University of Cambridge.

Ethel Newbold's move to Statistics was induced by her work during the First World War in the Ministry of Munitions.

Ethel Newbold studied for a MSc in the University of London, which she received in 1926, and was awarded a Doctorate in 1929.

Ethel Newbold became a member of the Medical Research Council in 1921, working on medical and industrial studies.

Ethel Newbold published 17 papers within the eight years she conducted research at the Medical Research Council.

Ethel Newbold was elected a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society in 1921 and was the first woman awarded the Guy Medal in Silver in 1928, for the paper"practical Applications of Statistics of Repeated Events, particularly to Industrial Accidents" and for her other contributions to the then novel experimental study of epidemiology.

Ethel Newbold served on the Council of the Royal Statistical Society between 1928 and 1933.

Ethel Newbold died at Woodend House, Hayes End, Middlesex in March 1933 after "a long illness".

Ethel Newbold's memorial was cleaned and repaired in 2018 by Burslem memorials at the request of the Friends of Tunbridge Wells Cemetery as part of the exhibition of Exceptional Women of Tunbridge Wells at the Cemetery, put on as part of the centenary commemorations of partial female suffrage.